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| Other authors / contributors: | Davoodi, Hamid Reza.
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Department.
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| ISBN: | 1283568055
9781283568050
145190116X
9781451901160
146231659X
9781462316595
1452728011
9781452728018
9786613880505
6613880507
9781451929515
145192951X
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23).
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| Summary: | Up to the time when a huge corruption scandal, popularly labeled "tangentopoli" (bribe city), brought down the political establishment that had ruled Italy for several decades, that country had reported one of the largest shares of capital spending in GDP among the OECD countries. After the scandal broke out and several prominent individuals were sent to jail, or even committed suicide, capital spending fell sharply. The fall seems to have been caused by a reduction in the number of capital projects being undertaken and, perhaps more importantly, by a sharp fall in the costs of the projects still undertaken. Information released by Transparency International (TI) 2 reports that, within the space of two or three years, in the city of Milan, the city where the scandal broke out in the first place, the cost of city rail links fell by 52 percent, the cost of one kilometer of subway fell by 57 percent, and the budget for the new airport terminal was reduced by 59 percent to reflect the lower construction costs. Although one must be aware of the logical fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc, the connection between the two events is too strong to be attributed to a coincidence. In fact this paper takes the view that it could not have been a coincidence.
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| Other form: | Print version: Tanzi, Vito. Corruption, public investment, and growth. [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Dept., ©1997
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| Standard no.: | 10.5089/9781451901160.001
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