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 for 460 estimates from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. Government corruption of any magnitude is a problem. It erodes ...

Dishonest governance is rarely a single act or brazen deal; more often, it appears as a set of habits that spread through a ...

Although I was born and raised in a country where corruption, especially petty corruption, had become part of many aspects of life, I only began studying the issue more thoroughly when corruption ...

Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In her new book, China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption (2020), Yuen Yuen Ang argues that not all types ...

The effects of apex corruption extend beyond democratic values. “They also decrease trust, not only in democratic ...

Patrick Tyrrell is a research coordinator in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for International Trade and Economics. Alexander Jelloian / @Ajelloian Alexander Jelloian is an intern in the Center for ...

Throwing the bums out is, for lack of a better word, good. Electing new political leaders and tossing out incumbents is correlated with improvements in economic growth and social well-being, according ...

As Alexis Mrachek of The Heritage Foundation has reported, Russian protesters have taken to the streets in recent weeks to express widespread anger and frustration with ongoing corruption in their ...

The paper examines the discursive construction of corruption by Ghanaian parliamentarians. It uses as dataset a 1.9 million-word corpus of Hansards of debates and committee reports between 2005 and ...