Posted by Michel Lazare
PFM Blog readers will remember that we published two previous posts on Daniel Kaufmann's blogs. The first one when Daniel created his own blog (Warm Welcome to "The Kaufmann Governance Post") and the second when he started posting on the Work Bank's blog Governance Matters (Another Warm Welcome to Daniel Kaufmann Who Does It Again).
Nowadays, while keeping his personal blog quite active, Daniel is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings where he does research and publishes on governance and anticorruption.
One of latest articles is a well-crafted piece titled: Can Corruption Adversely Affect Public Finances in Industrialized Countries? in which Daniel "departing from traditional “developing country” focused studies of corruption, [asks] whether corruption may adversely affect public finances in industrialized countries. With recent data, [he explores] the link between corruption (and other governance variables) and the public budget deficit of industrialized countries.
