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Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption in the Baltic and CIS Countries: The Role of the IMF

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  • Emine Gürgen
  • Mr. Thomas A. Wolf

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This paper examines the indirect role the IMF plays in combating corruption in the Baltic and CIS countries by promoting structural reforms that help improve economic governance and thus reduce opportunities for rent-seeking behavior. The analysis draws on examples of actual experience with corruption and outlines some of the structural measures under IMF-supported arrangements, which, if successfully implemented, can be expected to help gradually alleviate corruption. It also summarizes IMF-wide initiatives under way to strengthen public sector transparency and accountability, and highlights the key structural areas likely to receive emphasis in the IMF’s future policy advice to countries in the region.

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  • Emine Gürgen & Mr. Thomas A. Wolf, 2000. "Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption in the Baltic and CIS Countries: The Role of the IMF," IMF Working Papers 2000/001, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2000/001
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    2. Bernhard Reinsberg & Thomas Stubbs & Alexander Kentikelenis & Lawrence King, 2020. "Bad governance: How privatization increases corruption in the developing world," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 14(4), pages 698-717, October.
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    5. Fei Zhong, 2001. ""The Fable of the Keiretsu: "Big Bang versus Gradualism : The Political-Economy of the Patterns in Transition"(in Japanese)," CIRJE J-Series CIRJE-J-39, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
    6. Enrico Colombatto, 2001. "Discretionary power, rent-seeking and corruption," ICER Working Papers 24-2001, ICER - International Centre for Economic Research.
    7. Zafar Iqbal & Mervyn K. Lewis, 2014. "The Islamic position on corruption," Chapters, in: M. Kabir Hassan & Mervyn K. Lewis (ed.), Handbook on Islam and Economic Life, chapter 15, pages iii-iii, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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