Corruption is a symptom and outcome of institutional deficiency, with potentially adverse
effects on economic growth. This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the existing evidence …

Corruption is a symptom of weak institutional quality and could have potentially adverse
effects on economic growth. However, heterogeneity in reported findings makes it difficult to …

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-
analysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses …

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper provides a
systematic evaluation of the effect of corruption on growth, using meta-analysis techniques …

Background Corruption is a symptom and an outcome of institutional weakness, with
potentially adverse effects on a country's economic performance. In the last two decades, a …

This paper studies the effects of corruption on long-run growth incorporating measures of
political freedom as a key determinant of the relationship. Unlike previous empirical studies …

Purpose This paper investigates the corruption-growth relationship in a sample of 146
countries for the period–1984-2009. While negative effects of corruption on growth have …

Many studies examining whether corruption lowers economic growth do not consider if the
effects of corruption differ across countries. Whether corruption produces the same effects …

On the basis of the lubricating corruption effect hypothesis (grease-the-wheels hypothesis),
the impact of corruption on growth seems ambiguous. Therefore, the question that arises is …

Corruption is widely believed to have an adverse effect on the economic performance of a
country. However, many East-and-Southeast-Asian countries either achieved or currently …