Growth, Inequality and Corruption: Evidence from Developing Countries

DELBIANCO, FERNANDO, DABÚS, CARLOS Y CARABALLO POU, MARÍA ANGELES; DABÚS, CARLOS; MARÍA ÁNGELES CARABALLO POU

Sevilla

Workshop; 2015 International Network for Economic Research; 2015

Universidad Pablo de Olavide

The paper studies the relationship between economic growth, inequality and corruptio, for a wide sample of 111 developing countries during the 1980-2013 period. The idea is take a sample with a common feature: the fact that they are not developed yet. And from here we seek to determine how the corruption and the inequality affect economic growth in this countries. The results indicate that corruption has a negative impact on growth through traditional channels like investment in phisical and human capital. In turn, also inequality influences negatively economic growth in our sample.