This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

Corruption literature within economics has long returned ambiguous results with no concise cause or impact of … corruption identified. This meta-analysis aims to find synergy within the corruption literature by assessing macroeconomic … empirical studies that evaluate whether corruption "greases or sands" the wheels of economic development. The meta …

Mobility ; Openness ; Political Economy ; Beliefs ; Religion ; Immigration … that hard work rather than luck, birth, connections, and corruption determine wealth. In this way, the Janus face of …

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …