Li, Hongyi; Xu, Lixin Colin; Zou, Heng-fu - China Economics and Management Academy, Central … - 2000
This paper uses an encompassing framework developed by Murphy et al. (1991, 1993) to study corruption and how it … affects income distribution and growth. We find that (1) corruption affects income distribution in an inverted U-shaped way …, (2) corruption alone also explains a large proportion of the Gini differential across developing and industrial countries …