The Fight against Corruption : Taming Tigers and Swatting Flies
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National Governance; Social Policy; Judicial System Reform; Youth and Governance; Legal Reform; Government Policies; Public Sector Economics; Legislation; Legal Products; Public Finance Decentralization and Poverty Reduction; Regulatory Regimes; Governance Indicators; Educational Sciences; Public Sector Administrative&Civil Service Reform; Administrative&Civil Service Reform; Democratic Government; Public Sector Administrative and Civil Service Reform; De Facto Governments;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAM-2020-05-04 (Central and South America)
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