This paper investigates the impact of corruption on economic growth in the Italian Regions. We estimate a dynamic … growth model for the period 1980-2004 addressing both the potential bias of the measures of corruption and the endogeneity … between corruption and economic development. We find strong evidence of a negative correlation between corruption and growth …

We examine the effect of remittances on corruption using panel data for 111 countries over the period of 1986–2010. We … find that remittances increase corruption, especially in non-OECD countries. …

In this paper we investigate the effect of corruption on human capital accumulation through two channels. The first … channel is through the effect of corruption on the public expenditure on education and the second channel is through the … effect of corruption on the physical capital investment. Public expenditure on education affects positively human capital …

There is a growing literature on the issue of corruption. In particular, there is a large body of work that looks at … corruption or pilferage and considers as an example the voluntary disclosure of income scheme (VDIS) introduced by successive …

The paper examines the relationship between corruption and gender in institutions of local government in India, using a … government will engender public policy, and also tends to reduce corruption. The evidence we examined indicates that gender is … not a significant factor in explaining levels of corruption. Although nearly 40 per cent of the elective positions in the …

policy and corruption. Our dataset, as derived from national household or labor surveys, is more reliable than the data on … government wages as used in previous research. When the relationship between government wages and corruption is modeled to vary … with the level of income, we find that the impact of government wages on corruption is strong at relatively low …