Corruption, Income Distribution, and Growth

Corruption, Income Distribution, and Growth

This paper uses an encompassing framework developed by Murphy et al. (1991, 1993) to study corruption and how it affects income distribution and growth. We find that (1) corruption affects income distribution in an inverted U-shaped way, (2) corruption alone also explains a large proportion of the Gini differential across developing and industrial countries, and (3) that even after correcting f...

The relation between administrative corruption & economic growth in low income and medium income countries

Corruption is almost exist in all human societies throughout thehistory. Any continuation of corruption in different ages made most ofresearchers and policy makers to consider corruption as an inevitablepart of human being challenges (Mukum, 2008).Administrative corruption is common in most developed and/orunder –developed countries.In other words, there is no country in the world that has note...

Interaction Of Income Distribution, Taxes And Economic Growth

Corruption, economic growth, and income inequality in Africa

This paper uses panel data from African countries and a dynamic panel estimator to investigate the effects of corruption on economic growth and income distribution. I find that corruption decreases economic growthdirectly and indirectly through decreased investment in physical capital. A unit increase in corruption reduces the growth rates of GDP and per capita income by between 0.75 and 0.9 pe...

the relation between administrative corruption & economic growth in low income and medium income countries

corruption is almost exist in all human societies throughout thehistory. any continuation of corruption in different ages made most ofresearchers and policy makers to consider corruption as an inevitablepart of human being challenges (mukum, 2008).administrative corruption is common in most developed and/orunder –developed countries.in other words, there is no country in the world that has note...