. Kleptocratic policies are more likely when foreign aid and rents from natural resources provide rulers with substantial resources …

The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage …

corruption of their subordinates as a byproduct of their efforts to implement their preferences using tax revenue. Within this …