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Transparency international s Corruption perceptions index : whose perceptions Are They Anyway? Discussion Draft Revised March 2005 By Theresa Thompson and Anwar Shah1 1 Theresa Thompson is with the University of Maryland , and Anwar Shah is Lead Public Sector Specialist in the World Bank Institute. The views expressed in this paper are the personal views of the authors alone and should not be attributed to the University of Maryland or the World Bank. The authors are grateful to Johann Lambsdorff of Transparency international for comments on an earlier draft. 1 Introduction: In recent years, Corruption has become an important issue among a wide audience, including development economists, development institutions, politicians and the general public alike. Along with the realization that the quality of a country s institutions is crucial to development have come various empirical studies that have used various Corruption indices in regressions.

Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index: Whose Perceptions Are They Anyway? Discussion Draft Revised March 2005 By Theresa Thompson and Anwar Shah1 1 Theresa Thompson is with the University of Maryland , and Anwar Shah is Lead Public Sector Specialist

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