| dc.creator | Kimuyu, Peter | |
| dc.date | 2011-08-03T13:56:17Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-08-03T13:56:17Z | |
| dc.date | 2006 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-04T16:29:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-04T16:29:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 04-01-13 | |
| dc.identifier | Kimuyu, Peter (2006), Corruption, firm growth and export propensity in Kenya, Working paper no. 541, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/1054 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/7494 | |
| dc.description | Manufacturing firms in Kenya spend an average of 7.5% of
their annual sales on bribery, and as much as 14% of the value
of government contracts on kick-backs. These averages mask
significant sector, location and size differences in the exposure
to corruption. Networking with public servants somewhat shields
firms against corruption but that with politicians deepens exposure.
Corruption does not fast-track access to public services and
does not, therefore, play any greasing function. Rather, corruption
significantly dampens firm growth and the propensity to export,
implicitly reducing returns to investment and employment. It also
adds to the cost of doing business, reducing Kenya's
competitiveness and critically undermining the country's
development prospects. These findings uphold others that have
demonstrated the deleterious consequences of corruption, and
provide further reason for intensifying the fight against the vice.
In the circumstance, there is value in exploring ways of dismantling
bureaucratic discretion and control rights on which corruption
thrives. Furthermore, sustaining the program of privatisation of
state corporations and utility companies would create space for
expanding services, ameliorate capacity restrictions, obviate
service-stretching, inject competition in the provision of services
and reduce rents that are the objects of corruption. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Working papers;541 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Industrial Development | |
| dc.subject | Trade | |
| dc.subject | Politics and Power | |
| dc.title | Corruption, firm growth and export propensity in Kenya | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
