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100			_aKnack, Stephen
245			_aAre larger countries really more corrupt? _c/ Stephen Knack, Omar Azfar
260			_bWorld Bank _aWashington, D.C. _c2000
300			_a28 p.
490			_aPolicy research working paper _vno. 2470
504			_aIncluye bibliografía
520			_aSeveral authors claim to provide evidence that government corruption is less severe in small than in large countries. The authors demonstrate that this relationship is an artifact of sample selection. Most corruption indicators provide ratings only for the countries in which multi-national investors have the greatest interest. These tend to include almost all large nations but, among small nations, only those that are well governed. The authors find that the relationship between corruption and country size disappears when one uses either a new corruption indicator with substantially increased country coverage or an alternative corruption indicator that covers all World Bank borrowers without regard to country size. They also show that the relationship between corruption and trade intensity--a variable strongly related to population--disappears when samples less subject to selection bias are used.
650			_aCORRUPCION ADMINISTRATIVA
650			_aGOBIERNO
700			_aAzfar, Omar
942			_cDOCU _jF 353.46 K 20423
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