This cursory literature review discusses the direct and indirect effects of institutions, governance, and democracy on … economic growth, and the following conclusions are drawn. First, institutions and governance have a positive effect on growth … but its net effect remains inconclusive. There remains unanswered the question of why institutions and governance matter …

estimation methods. However, the analysis suggests that good governance, trade-openness, and coordinating infrastructure …

' fragile governance quality. Nonetheless, the optimism, which we provide by way of threshold analysis shows that channelling … resources into the development of these governance dynamics yield positive net effects from the short-term through to the long … structures for fighting corruption while addressing fragilities in regulatory quality and government effectiveness are …

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between ethnic fractionalization, corruption and the growth rate of a … country. We provide a simple theoretical model. We show that a nonlinear relationship between fractionalization and corruption … exists: corruption is high in homogeneous or very fragmented countries, but low where fractionalization is intermediate. In …

Who really wins from foreign direct investment (FDI) and by how much? Should winners care about corruption? Building on … evidence of heterogeneity in the FDI-growth relationship, we propose a semiparametric model that allows corruption to influence … of instrumental variables. We find evidence that corruption has a sizeable nonlinear role in the FDI-growth relation …

Government corruption is more prevalent in poor countries than in rich countries. This paper uses cross …-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. We find that it does. We … results suggest that as poor countries grow, corruption could subside …