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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Autor principal: Gupta, Sanjeev
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/076
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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