Analyse based on the article « Corruption happens, lobbying rules” http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/2525 |Corruption happens, lobbying rules |
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|Nauro F. Campos |
|8 November 2008 |
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|This column presents evidence that lobbying is not only much more prevalent in developing countries than previously thought but also |
|much more effective than corruption as a means of influencing public policy and supporting enterprise growth. |
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|Conventional wisdom suggests that corruption is a fundamental barrier to economic development and endemic in developing countries. |
|Examining the vast literature that has emerged in the last two decades or so, one could be excused for thinking that corruption is not |
|just one way to influence policy in poor or developing countries, but it is the only way. Are there any other means? Are these other |
|means more or less effective than corruption? Recent research raises the possibility that one alternative, lobbying, is not only much |
|more prevalent in developing countries than previously thought, but also that