absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to …

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …

economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. Finally, the various …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …

effectiveness or control of corruption). Specifically, health aid to a recipient nation that experiences a one standard deviation …