This paper discusses the possible causes and consequences of corruption. It provides a synthetic review of recent … studies that analyze this phenomenon empirically. In addition, it presents further results on the effects of corruption on … growth and investment, and new cross-country evidence on the link between corruption and the composition of government …

The results of the study suggested that corruption and GDP growth are not significantly associated, or, in the case of … corruption and economic growth (Mauro, 1995; Méon & Sekkat, 2005; Mo, 2001). These results are, however, subject to the numerous … limitations of the study. To begin with, because the GCC countries were the focus of the research, corruption data could only be …