Political corruption, public procurement, and budget composition: Theory and evidence from OECD countries

Hessami, Zohal

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2014.02.005

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“…Boycko et al (1996) found that corruption impacts return on investment. Hessami (2014) found that corruption leads to raising of the government budget. Corruption could also lead to political discontent, instability, and violence, as evidenced in the work of Aisen and Veiga (2013).…”

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“…Corruption is a constant concern for countries that face economic problems (D'Agostino, Dunne, & Pieroni, 2016). Increasingly, researchers have devoted extant literature to the discussion of the phenomenon; however, these discussions have focused mainly on the relationship between corruption and variables, such as economic development (Huang, 2016;Treisman, 2000); social effects (Saha & Gounder, 2013); innovation (Paunov, 2016); firm management quality (Athanasouli & Goujard, 2015); gross domestic product (GDP; Pellegrini & Gerlagh, 2004); returns on investment (Boycko, Shleifer, & Vishny, 1996); increase in government budget (Hessami, 2014); political discontent, instability, and violence (Aisen & Veiga, 2013); rule-violating intentions (Sundstrom, 2016); democracy (Jetter, Agudelo, & Sramirez, 2015); and inequality (Dobson & RamloganDobson, 2012).…”

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Corruption as a Source of Government Project Failure in Developing Countries

Damoah

Akwei

Amoako

et al. 2018

Project Management Journal

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This study explores how corruption impacts the failure of government projects in developing countries with evidence from the Ghanaian context. This study solicits the perceptions of project management practitioners (14), contractors (6), government officials (clients; 5), and the general public (5) on the subject. The findings indicate that corruption influences government project failure on all the failure criteria that were used for the evaluation. However, corruption influences failure at two different levels: project management and product phase. At the project management level, corruption has direct influence, while at the product phase level, the influence is indirect.

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Corruption as a Source of Government Project Failure in Developing Countries

Damoah

Akwei

Amoako

et al. 2018

Project Management Journal

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“…A corrupção em contratos com o governo, que envolve propinas a agentes públicos e captura de renda por agentes privados, também ocorre em países desenvolvidos (Hessami, 2014). Tem sido mostrado que existe uma relação inversa tanto com o desenvolvimento econômico (Treisman, 2000) quanto com o desenvolvimento humano (Akçay, 2006 Em geral a literatura que trata de corrupção e desenvolvimento humano discute governos centrais e os impactos nacionais (ex.…”

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Corrupção e ineficiência em licitações de governos locais e desenvolvimento humano: novas reflexões

Laurinho

Dias

Mattos

2017

Rev. contab. organ.

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57Corrupção e ineficiência em contratações públicas e a associação com nível de desenvolvimento humano têm sido evidenciados em diversos países e governos. O presente artigo analisa a associação de irregularidades identificadas em licitações na função saúde em municípios brasileiros nos anos de 2010 a 2012. A presença de irregularidade está associada a um baixo desenvolvimento humano dos municípios considerados. A reflexão feita aqui é que, apesar de não ser possível pela metodologia afirmar causalidade entre corrupção e baixo desenvolvimento humano, há indícios de que a existência de tais práticas pode estar justamente associada ao baixo índice de desenvolvimento humano existente. Como implicação prática sugere-se o aumento da transparência dos processos e da atuação dos órgãos de controle, dado que o ambiente social local pode facilitar práticas clientelistas que criam oportunidades favoráveis à corrupção. INTRODUÇÃOTrinta e oito bilhões de reais é o valor, incluindo multas, que o Ministério Público Federal (MPF) está pedindo em ressarcimentos relacionados aos processos da Operação Lava Jato, iniciada em março de 2014 (MPF, 2017). O esquema criminoso relacionado a desvios de recursos da Petrobras descoberto pela força-tarefa evidencia uma estreita relação entre processos licitatórios e corrupção. Foi comprovado que a operacionalização dos desvios de recursos ocorria com a organização de cartéis entre as grandes empreiteiras, que pagavam propinas entre 1% a 5% do montante dos contratos superfaturados para a execução de obras. Tais contratos foram obtidos por meio de processos licitatórios aparentemente lícitos (MPF, 2017). Na contramão desse desperdício de recursos públicos por corrupção, inserida em uma crise política-econômica, a situação financeira do Brasil é crítica em 2017. O governo chegou ao ponto de sugerir uma redução no valor da proposta inicial do salário mínimo de 2018, em R$ 10, o que levaria à economia de três bilhões de reais 1 .1 Fonte da informação: Governo propõe salário mínimo de R$10 menor em 2018, de R$969. G1 Economia. Disponível em: Abstract Informações do ArtigoRecebido: 17 de julho de 2017 Aceito: 12 de setembro de 2017 Corruption and inefficiency in local governments' procurement processes and human development: new reflections

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“…The corruption levels of European organizations are relatively lower compared with the rest of the world; however evidence show that corruption remains a major concern in the European countries. Empirical findings of Hessami (2014) suggest that corruption in the broad sense of use of government office for private benefit is an issue in OECD countries and is not limited to low-income countries. Furthermore, the OECD (2014) reports that bribes are not just a problem for developing world: bribes are being paid to officials from countries at all stages of economic development.…”

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Effects of corruption on efficiency of the European airports

Randrianarisoa

Bolduc

Choo

et al. 2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Abstract:The effect of corruption on airport productive efficiency is analyzed using an unbalanced panel data of major European airports from 2003 to 2009. We first compute the residual (or net) variable factor productivity using the multilateral index number method and then apply robust cluster random effects model in order to evaluate the importance of corruption. We find strong evidence that corruption has negative impacts on airport operating efficiency; and the effects depend on the ownership form of the airport. The results suggest that airports under mixed public-private ownership with private majority achieve lower levels of efficiency when located in more corrupt countries. They even operate less efficiently than fully and/or majority government owned airports in high corruption environment. We control for economic regulation, competition level and other airports' characteristics. Our empirical results survive several robustness checks including different control variables, three alternative corruption measures: International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) corruption index, Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and Control of Corruption Index (CCI). The empirical findings have important policy implications for management and ownership structuring of airports operating in countries that suffer from higher levels of corruption.

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Political corruption, public procurement, and budget composition: Theory and evidence from OECD countries

Cited by 172 publications

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Corruption as a Source of Government Project Failure in Developing Countries

Corruption as a Source of Government Project Failure in Developing Countries

Corrupção e ineficiência em licitações de governos locais e desenvolvimento humano: novas reflexões

Effects of corruption on efficiency of the European airports

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