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Corruption and Development Indicators: An Empirical Review

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  • Nelson Ramírez-Rondán

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    (Central Bank of Peru)

  • Saki Bigio

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    (New York University)

Abstract

In this paper we report international evidence on the relationship between corruption and several development indicators such as economic stability, quality in educational expenditures, fiscal income, inequality, investment and economic growth. We first show how this relationship is negative by presenting simple unconditional correlations between corruption and these indicators. We then procede to quantify the effects of corruption on growth: we estimate a Dynamic Panel Data model for a sample of 80 countries and taking 1960-2000 as our sample period. Our findings suggest that in improvement in corruption indicators from levels in Latina America and Africa to developed country standards would increase output growth in 0,5% and 0,7% respectively.

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Keywords: Corruption; Development; Growth;

Find related papers by JEL classification:

  • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
  • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
  • O50 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - General

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