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 "on its own,'' and they demonstrate one type of positive …

confirmation of this aspect of natural resources. Waste and corruption from oil rather than Dutch disease has been responsible for … distributing the oil revenues to the public. Even with all the difficulties of corruption and inefficiency that will no doubt …

threats, corruption, and other relevant controls. While growth falls with higher levels of military spending, given the values …

We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth … infrastructure. Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model … predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We find …

transaction difficulties. But, such environments often also feature highly interventionist government, and even corruption …

worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

at which households come out of poverty affects their asset purchase decisions. We provide empirical support for these …

This paper explores the relationship between the macroeconomy and the poverty rate. The first section provides evidence … that poverty was far less responsive to macroeconomic growth in the 1980s than it had been in earlier decades. The section … result is that economic growth has been a far less effective anti-poverty tool over the past decade …