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Income Shocks and Corruption in Africa : Does a Virtuous Cycle Exist?

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dc.contributor.authorVoors, Maarten J.
dc.contributor.authorBulte, Erwin H.
dc.contributor.authorDamania, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:30:48Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:30:48Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractEmpirical evidence suggests that governance quality is a key driver of economic growth and that, in turn, higher incomes might have a positive causal effect on the quality of governance. Such complementarity could invite virtuous cycles of development. Using a measure of corruption as our proxy for the quality of governance, and rainfall as an instrument for income, we explore this issue and find evidence to the contrary. For a panel of African countries, positive income shocks on average tend to invite extra corruption. Closer inspection, however, reveals that this result can be attributed to the most corrupt countries. Conversely, countries with a sufficiently low level of corruption can escape the detrimental effect of income booms on corruption and may actually experience a virtuous cycle of development.en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of African Economies
dc.identifier.issn09638024
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/5005
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectPolitical Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D720
dc.subjectBureaucracy
dc.subjectAdministrative Processes in Public Organizations
dc.subjectCorruption D730
dc.subjectIllegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law K420
dc.subjectFormal and Informal Sectors
dc.subjectShadow Economy
dc.subjectInstitutional Arrangements O170
dc.subjectInstitutions and Growth O430
dc.subjectMeasurement of Economic Growth
dc.subjectAggregate Productivity
dc.subjectCross-Country Output Convergence O470
dc.titleIncome Shocks and Corruption in Africa : Does a Virtuous Cycle Exist?en
dc.title.alternativeJournal of African Economiesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum1683
okr.journal.nbpages395-418
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.geographicalAfrica
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okr.volume20
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