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The overall aim of the book is to contribute to our understanding of the influence of corruption on paths of sustainable development. At different stages, the study shows how corruption hinders economic growth and diminishes the stringency of environmental protection—two fundamental components of sustainable development. Furthermore, the study includes the related issue of the determinants of corruption levels and highlights the difficulties in dealing with corruption in weak institutional settings through a case study.
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One way to consider culture could be to include it in a standard incentive framework, where certain cultural features would be an incentive (disincentive) to engage in corruption. For examples of an economic study that explicitly considers how culture and informal norms affect corruptibility see Lambsdorff et al. (2005).
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Pellegrini, L. (2011). Conclusions and Future Research. In: Corruption, Development and the Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0599-9_8
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