Incentive myopia

Klitgaard, Robert

doi:10.1016/0305-750x(89)90254-4

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“…Low wages, inadequate bene®ts, and segmented labour markets mark most African public sectors (Klitgaard, 1989;Chew, 1990). Clearly, the greater the disparity between civil service wages and bene®ts and those available in the parastatal, foreign aid, or private sectors, the more likely it is that skilled economists, planners, and data managers will leave key ministries and agencies.…”

Section: Addressing Salary and Bene®t Constraintsmentioning

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“…Brie¯y, they argue that African governments have trouble retaining their`best and brightest' managers, economists, planners, and data technicians because of budgetary factors that necessitate low salary levels, inadequate senior-level management of personnel, social disruptions and political repression that drive skilled personnel out of the public sector, and, in some cases, out of the country, and the tendency of expensive expatriate technical assistance specialists who provide the missing services to discourage retention so as to maintain lucrative advisory posts (e.g. Klitgaard, 1989;Chew, 1990;Berg 1993;Cohen, 1993;UNDP, 1993). Unfortunately, such studies are typically deductive and anecdotal (e.g.…”

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Building sustainable professional capacity in African public sectors: retention constraints in Kenya

Cohen¹,

Wheeler²

1997

Public Admin. Dev.

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Building sustainable professional capacity in African public sectors: retention constraints in Kenya

Cohen¹,

Wheeler²

1997

Public Admin. Dev.

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“…The practice then, which consists in buying a function in the administrative sector in a bid to perceive better "bakchichs" tends to spread over (Wade, 1982). This also finds an explanation in the assertion of Klitgaard, according to which the low rate of the public-service remunerations largely accounts for the everyday acceptance of small corruptions (Klitgaard, 1989). …”

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Determinants of Economic Corruption in the Arab Countries: Dangers and Remedies

Touati¹

2014

JESR

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The purpose of the present work is twofold. On a first stage, it aims at highlighting the corruption-related issues in terms of its definitions and different perceptions with respect to some economic theories, while stressing the specific factors lying behind the spread of such practice in the Arab countries. Actually, an emphasis has been put through this research on poverty, illiteracy, low incomes, poor governance, absence of strong powerful institutions and State of right and democracy, more generally the prevalence of a rent based economy, in addition to the impact of special socio-cultural beliefs and practices pertinent to Arab countries that constitute the major reasons leading to the aggravation of such blight throughout the whole region. Moreover, relying on an empirical study based on panel data model over the period 2005 to 2010, this paper tends to show that there does really exist a statically-significant relationship between the riser development size in corruption measured by the corruption perception index as a dependent variable, and the human development index, press freedom index and inflation rate as independent variables. On a second stage, some regulatory recommendations have been advanced within the scope of this work, likely to help fight against such a phenomenon by pointing out and curbing its subjacent latent roots, thus drawing these countries efforts, precautions measures and attention more on the rather preventive measures i.e. on economic policy and institutional reforms while stressing the role of taking further incentives.

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“…Favouritism, clientelism, and corruption are intensified, as any observer of contemporary Nigeria would note. The tendency towards state failure is enhanced by poor wages and the recourse to "survival strategies" (Klitgaard, 1989).…”

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confidence: 99%