Income Shocks and Corruption in Africa : Does a Virtuous Cycle Exist?
Empirical 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...
Main Authors: | Voors, Maarten J., Bulte, Erwin H., Damania, Richard |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5005 |
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