Exploiting the Poor: Bureaucratic Corruption and Poverty in Africa

Justesen, Mogens Kamp; Bjørnskov, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.002

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“…Cross-national analyses of bribery using Afrobarometer survey data have found consistent evidence of a positive poverty-bribery association (Justesen & Bjornskov, 2012Kaffenberger, 2012;Peiffer & Rose, 2014;Razafindrakoto & Roubaud, 2007). Justesen and Bjornskov's (2014) study stands out because the impact of poverty on bribery is their primary focus.…”

Section: Theories and Hypotheses About Poverty And Briberymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Justesen and Bjornskov's (2014) study stands out because the impact of poverty on bribery is their primary focus. Using the 2005 third-round Afrobarometer survey of 18 countries they find, after controlling for the potential effects of other variables, that poverty is positively associated with an index capturing the frequency with which respondents have paid a bribe to any service, whether a bribe was paid to each of the five services asked about, and whether a bribe was paid by anyone in the respondent's household in the last year.…”

Section: Theories and Hypotheses About Poverty And Briberymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Why Are the Poor More Vulnerable to Bribery in Africa? The Institutional Effects of Services

Peiffer

Rose

2016

The Journal of Development Studies

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Section: Theories and Hypotheses About Poverty And Briberymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theories and Hypotheses About Poverty And Briberymentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Are the Poor More Vulnerable to Bribery in Africa? The Institutional Effects of Services

Peiffer

Rose

2016

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…He asserts that some items of public expenditure are more attractive than others in acquiring illegal rents and bribes, leading to corruption in the public sector. Justesen et al [82] shows that corruption lowers government expenditure on the poor and adversely affects them. Dzhmashev [83] shows that the interaction between corruption and governance shapes the efficiency of public spending, which in turn, determines the growth effects of corruption.…”

Section: Public Debt Institutions and Economic Growth (This Section mentioning

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Public Debt, Corruption and Sustainable Economic Growth

Kim

2017

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Abstract:There are many studies that look into the relationship between public debt and economic growth. It is hard to find, however, research addressing the role of corruption between these two variables. Noticing this vacancy in current literature, we strive to investigate the effect of corruption on the relationship between public debt and economic growth. For this purpose, the pooled ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed effects models and the dynamic panel generalized method of moments (GMM) models (Arellano-Bond, 1991) are estimated with data of 77 countries from 1990 to 2014. The empirical results show that the interaction term between public debt and corruption is statistically significant. This confirms the hypothesis that the effect of public debt on economic growth is a function of corruption. The sign of the marginal effect is negative in corrupt countries, but public debt enhances economic growth within countries that are not corrupt, i.e., highly transparent.

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“…First, some have made use of reliable micro-data on corrupt activities from well-designed surveys (see for example Diaby & Sylwester, 2015;Gillanders, 2014). Using data from the Afrobarometer, Justesen & Bjørnskov (2014) show that males and younger people are more likely to pay bribes in general. Our work can be differentiated from theirs as we focus on bribery within the business world, which differs considerably to bribery by individuals who wish to gain access to public services.…”

Section: Gender and Corruptionmentioning

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Gender and Corruption in Business

Breen

Gillanders

McNulty

et al. 2016

The Journal of Development Studies

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Are women less corrupt in business? We revisit this question using firm-level data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, which measure firms' experience of corruption and the gender of their owners and top managers. We find that women in positions of influence are associated with less corruption: female-owned businesses pay less in bribes and corruption is seen as less of an obstacle in companies where women are represented in top management. By providing evidence that women are, ethically at least, good for business our research contributes to the literature on development, gender equality, and corruption more generally.JEL Classification: D73, G32, J16, M14

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Exploiting the Poor: Bureaucratic Corruption and Poverty in Africa

Cited by 161 publications

References 25 publications

Why Are the Poor More Vulnerable to Bribery in Africa? The Institutional Effects of Services

Why Are the Poor More Vulnerable to Bribery in Africa? The Institutional Effects of Services

Public Debt, Corruption and Sustainable Economic Growth

Gender and Corruption in Business

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