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Is Corruption an Efficient Grease?
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- Authors
- Méon, P.-G., & Weill, L.
- Venue
- World Development
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-03
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 244-259
- ISSN
- 0305-750X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3023858863
- Cited by
- 894
- References
- 50
- FWCI
- 60.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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