Gupta, Sanjeev; Davoodi, Hamid; Alonso-Terme, Rosa - In: Economics of Governance 3 (2002) 1, pp. 23-45
This paper provides evidence that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty. An increase of … inequality and poverty. An important implication of these findings is that policies that reduce corruption will most likely … one standard deviation in corruption increases the Gini coefficient of income inequality by about 11 points and income …