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Fighting Corruption in Public Services : Chronicling Georgia's Reforms

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This book chronicles the anticorruption reforms that have transformed public service in Georgia since the Rose Revolution in late 2003. The focus is on the 'how' behind successful reforms of selected public services. This book tries to answer some of these questions. It is based largely on data and informed by interviews with past and current high-ranking government officials who provide insights from within government on the challenges and solutions, the decisions, and the trade-offs considered. This book does not assess Georgia's overall reforms since the rose revolution. It does not address efforts toward democratization, which were a key part of the rose revolution. The book focuses on how the state was able to root out corruption and eliminate red tape in selected public services. It does not analyze areas in which government efforts are still continuing or may have fallen short. Nor does it suggest any causality between anticorruption reforms and growth or social outcomes. From the case studies on each of these efforts, the book identifies a set of common factors that led to the success of the reforms.

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  • World Bank, 2012. "Fighting Corruption in Public Services : Chronicling Georgia's Reforms," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 2234.
  • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:2234
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    1. World Bank, 2012. "A Policy Framework for Green Transportation in Georgia : Achieving Reforms and Building Infrastructure for Sustainability," World Bank Publications - Reports 11899, The World Bank Group.
    2. Adiya Belgibayeva & Alexander Plekhanov, 2019. "Does corruption matter for sources of foreign direct investment?," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 155(3), pages 487-510, August.
    3. Jonathan Walters, 2016. "Managing the Energy Transition," Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Emerging Markets Forum, vol. 8(2), pages 81-103, May.
    4. Thomas Herzfeld & Iryna Kulyk & Axel Wolz, 2018. "Is Agribusiness Different? Firm-Level Evidence of Perceived Corruption in Post-Soviet Countries," Eastern European Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(6), pages 504-521, November.
    5. Valasek, Justin, 2018. "Dynamic reform of public institutions: A model of motivated agents and collective reputation," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 168(C), pages 94-108.
    6. Abbink, Klaus & Ryvkin, Dmitry & Serra, Danila, 2020. "Corrupt police," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 123(C), pages 101-119.
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    7. Lev Freinkman & Andrei Yakovlev, 2015. "Institutional frameworks to support regulatory reform in middle-income economies: lessons from Russia's recent experience," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(3), pages 354-369, September.
    8. Lasha Labadze, 2023. "Assessing the Socioeconomic Impacts of Transitioning from Plutocracy to Meritocracy in University Admissions," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-16, October.
    9. Takaaki Masaki & Bradley C. Parks, 2020. "When do performance assessments influence policy behavior? Micro-evidence from the 2014 Reform Efforts Survey," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 15(2), pages 371-408, April.
    10. Thomas Gift & Daniel Krcmaric, 2017. "Who Democratizes? Western-educated Leaders and Regime Transitions," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 61(3), pages 671-701, March.
    11. World Bank Group, 2019. "Central African Republic Economic Update, November 2019," World Bank Publications - Reports 32793, The World Bank Group.
    12. Matt Andrews & Nick Fanning, 2015. "Mapping Peer Learning Initiatives in Public Sector Reforms in Development," CID Working Papers 298, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
    13. Timm, Christian, 2014. "A liberal developmental state in Georgia? State dominance and Washington Consensus in the post-communist region," PFH Forschungspapiere/Research Papers 2014/02, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences, Göttingen.
    14. Zurab Abramishvili, 2017. "An Impact Evaluation of Mass Replacement of School Principals in Georgia," Working Papers 006-17 JEL Codes: H4, I21, International School of Economics at TSU, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.
    15. Karine Torosyan & Randall K. Filer, 2014. "Tax reform in Georgia and the size of the shadow economy," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 22(1), pages 179-210, January.
    16. Lumir Abdixhiku, Geoff Pugh, Iraj Hashi, 2018. "Business Tax Evasion in Transition Economies: A Cross-Country Panel Investigation," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 15(1), pages 11-36, June.
    17. Aktoty Aitzhanova & Shigeo Katsu & Johannes F. Linn & Vladislav Yezhov (ed.), 2014. "Kazakhstan 2050: Toward a Modern Society for All," Books, Emerging Markets Forum, edition 1, number kazakh2050, May.

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