Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter : understanding corruption using cross-national firm-level surveys
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Public Sector Corruption&Anticorruption Measures; Microfinance; Access to Finance; Poverty Monitoring&Analysis; Social Accountability;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2007-12-08 (Development)
- NEP-POL-2007-12-08 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-REG-2007-12-08 (Regulation)
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