This paper revisits the effects of corruption on the state's capacity to raise revenue, building on the existing …-2014, compiled by the IMF. It finds that-consistent with the existing literature-corruption is negatively associated with overall tax … revenue, and most of its components. This relationship is predominantly influenced by the way corruption interacts with tax …

This paper provides evidence that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty. An increase of … one standard deviation in corruption increases the Gini coefficient of income inequality by about 11 points and income … corruption and other sensitivity analyses. The paper discusses several channels through which corruption may affect income …

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic … corruption. An important implication of these results is that policies that reduce corruption will also lower income inequality …

This paper revisits the effects of corruption on the state's capacity to raise revenue, building on the existing …-2014, compiled by the IMF. It finds that-consistent with the existing literature-corruption is negatively associated with overall tax … revenue, and most of its components. This relationship is predominantly influenced by the way corruption interacts with tax …

The economics of corruption: an overview / George T. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta -- pt. 1. Causes and consequences of … corruption. Corruption around the world: causes, consequences, scope, and cures / Vito Tanzi -- Bureaucratic corruption and the … rate of temptation: do wages in the civil service affect corruption, and by how much? / Caroline Van Rijckeghem and …

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 The Economics of Corruption: An Overview George T …. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta -- Part I Causes and Consequences of Corruption -- 2 Corruption Around the World: Causes …, Consequences, Scope, and Cures Vito Tanzi -- 3 Bureaucratic Corruption and the Rate of Temptation: Do Wages in the Civil Service …

This volume presents 18 recent IMF research studies on the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as how it can … civil service wages affect corruption, the impact of natural resource availability on corruption, how corruption retards the … growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, the impact of corruption on a country’s income distribution and incidence of …