This paper examines causes and consequences of corruption within the process of economic development. It starts by … reviewing some of the factors that, over the past couple of decades, have transformed corruption from a subject on the sidelines …, the paper analyzes many of the institutional mechanisms that sustain corruption and the impact of corruption on …

available (for Bangladesh in the 1990s), the authors investigate the relationships between corruption, and growth, and, between … corruption and investment, both domestic and foreign, to see whether they have changed from earlier decades. Then they move away … from Mauro's implicit assumption that the corruption index value for a relatively short period of time, can be used as a …

corruption, which posit that corruption retards development, even more than taxation does …

poverty-also understood as the vulnerability threshold-increased between those periods in real terms. This increase correlates …

reduce poverty. This paper describes the main mechanisms through which demographic change may affect economic outcomes, and … estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … poverty reduction …

strong adverse impacts on gross domestic product per capita, income, and poverty reduction. This study provides a regional … percent, which in turn increases moderate and extreme poverty by 1.5 percentage points. These results demonstrate the causal … relationship between hurricane windstorm impacts and poverty in Central America, producing regional evidence that could improve …

trends scenario. Finally, rebalancing reduces the prevalence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the isolated … negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and … poverty, but the extent of this varies by country …

the literature and contributes by: Showing that financial depth is negatively associated with headcount poverty, even …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …