فساد اداری و امور مالی: دیدگاه صندوق بین المللی پول

Public finance should be a means whereby governments in low-income countries are able to increase economic growth and end poverty. Corruption, however, reduces tax revenue and makes public expenditure policies ineffective for achieving social objectives. The papers in this volume, which is sponsored by the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), describe how corruption makes public finance ineffective in promoting economic development.

The people who can best describe corruption are those themselves engaged in corruption. After the perpetrators themselves, the next best placed to describe corruption are those who interact with the governments within which corruption takes place. Prominent among the latter are staff members of the International Financial Institutions. This book, edited by two staff members of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and with contributions principally by IMF staff economists, demonstrates the extent to which issues associated with governance and corruption concern the International Monetary Fund. The studies in the book make clear why, when governments are corrupt, public finance is ineffective in increasing growth and reducing poverty.