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Assessing Progress in Transparency and Anticorruption

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Manuel Balán*
Affiliation:
McGill University
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References

1. Mark E. Warren, “What Does Corruption Mean in a Democracy?,” American Journal of Political Science 48, no. 2 (2004): 328–343.

2. Sajeev Gupta, Hamid Davoodi, and Rosa Alonso-Terme, “Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty?,” IMF Working Paper WP/98/76, May 1998.

3. See “Absuelven a ex presidente Rodríguez de Costa Rica,” Tiempo, December 21, 2012, http://tiempo.hn/el-mundo/item/4235-absuelven-a-ex-presidente-rodríguez-de-costa-rica.