“…In so doing, two strands of the contemporary economic literature are combined. While the first strand focuses on the determinants of hunger (see, for example, Gödecke et al, 2018;Mautau et al, 2018;Mary et al, 2020), the second strand is part of the vast literature on the effects of corruption (Mauro, 1995;Bardhan, 1997;Mauro, 1998;Asongu, 2014;Marakbi, 2020;Keneck-Massil et al, 2021;Asteriou et al, 2021). To the best of our knowledge, there is no study on the relationship between types of corruption and hunger.…”