Unpacking bribery: petty corruption and favor exchanges

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  • What: Using an original dataset from a household survey conducted in Guatemala, the analysis shows that social proximity and centrality allow citizens to obtain privileges through implicit favor exchanges and illicit payments. Extortion has been the focus of the majority of studies of petty corruption in public service delivery (Bohn 2012; Fried et_al 2010; Robinson and Seim 2018). The survey was primarily designed to study the impact of the Model Police Precinct (MPP) project, which was implemented by RTI International13 between June 2016 and June 2019 with funding from the United_States Department of State`s Bureau of . . .

     

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