01814cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001306 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451855371 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Abed, George. Corruption, Structural Reforms, and Economic Performance in the Transition Economies / George Abed, Hamid Davoodi. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000. 1 online resource (47 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Recent studies have highlighted the adverse impact of corruption on economic performance. This paper advances the hypothesis that corruption is largely a symptom of underlying weaknesses in public policies and institutions, a formulation that provides deeper insights into economic performance than do measures of 'perceived corruption.' The hypothesis is tested by assessing the relative importance of structural reforms vs. corruption in explaining macroeconomic performance in the transition economies. The paper finds that for four widely used measures of economic performance-growth, inflation, the fiscal balance, and foreign direct investment-structural reforms tend to dominate the corruption variable. Mode of access: Internet Davoodi, Hamid. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/132 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2000/132/001.2000.issue-132-en.xml IMF e-Library