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The Real State: Inside the Congo's Traffic Police Agency

By Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra, Kristof Titeca, Haoyang (Stan) Xie, Aimable Amani Lameke, and Albert Malukisa Nkuku

American Economic Review, December 2024

This paper provides insight into a corruption scheme in Kinshasa's traffic police agency. First, various data collection branches show that the agency's revenue is five times that from fines and is derived from a coalition of traffic police officials, the...