relevant threshold levels required for the various governance dynamics to cause Chinese FDI to equalise incomes in Africa. Our … propelling Chinese FDI towards the equalisation of incomes across the continent, governance mechanisms for ensuring political … stability, low corruption, and voice and accountability are keys. Finally, critical masses required for these three key …

There is a strong correlation between various measures of perceived or experienced corruption and measures of economic … inequality across countries. Existing cross-national studies have found a significant effect of corruption on inequality and … poverty as well as a significant and strong effect of inequality on corruption. There seems to be a strong reciprocal causal …

This paper presents new evidence on the relationship between corruption and income inequality. Using a panel data … methodology, we find that lower corruption is associated with higher income inequality in Latin America. This result is in … relationship between inequality and corruption suggests that institutional reform policies by themselves may be misguided …