This article investigates the relationship between income and corruption which provides an insight to the changes in the level of perceived corruption and economic development across countries. An existing shortcoming is that previous studies have focused only on detecting the linear effects of...

The role of institutions in economic development / Mohamed Sami Ben Ali and Sorin M.S. Krammer. - Sources of economic growth in MENA countries : technological progress, physical or human capital accumulations? / Senay Acikgoz, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali and Merter Mert. - The Middle East and North...

This paper analyzes the role of economic development in curbing corruption by focusing on political and economic freedoms for a sample of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries over the period 1984-2013. In addition, the analysis investigates whether political and economic freedoms...