An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Corruption : Theory and Applications

No generally accepted framework exists for constructing and evaluating measures of corruption. This article shows how the axiomatic approach of the poverty and inequality literature can be applied to the measurement of corruption. A conceptual framework for organizing corruption data is developed, a...

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Main Authors: Foster, James E., Horowitz, Andrew W., Méndez, Fabio
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16350

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