Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty? /

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic growth, the progressivity of the tax system, the level and effectiveness of social spending, and the formation of human capital, and by perpetuating an unequal distribution of asset o...

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Auteur principal: Gupta, Sanjeev
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/076
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF