Development Economics (Audio)

How much does corruption damage the prospects for economic growth?  Let's look at the evidence.

Here is one source for crowd-sourced lessons on corruption.

How do we measure corruption and what do these indices consists of?

Can you use corruption to get a driver's license in India?  What does this imply about life on the road?

One of the biggests costs of corruption -- maybe the biggest -- is that it can keep new technologies out of a country.

Are some ways of being more corrupt less efficient and more harmful than others?  It turns out the form of corruption can really matter.

Just how much corruption is there anyway?  This fascinating study from Peru gives us some very reliable data.

We look at how corruption and rent seeking can trap economies in a low growth equilibrium based in part on "Why is Rent Seeking So Costly Growth" a paper by Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny.

Does corruption have lower social cost when it is simply a cash bribe?

Funny enough, one big question in economics is why the world isn't even more corrupt than what we observe.  It's not such an easy question to answer.