Corruption and the composition of government expenditure
Journal of Public EconomicsPublished 1 June 1998
Paolo Mauro
Citations1,493
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This paper asks whether predatory behavior by corrupt politicians distorts the composition of government expenditure. Corruption is found to reduce government spending on education in a cross section of countries.
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