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This paper analyses the effects of corruption and democracy on economic growth. Corruption is found to have significant negative effect on growth. Substantial part of the corruptions' effect is caused through corruption's transmission channels. More precisely, corruption is found to negatively affect investments, schooling, trade openness and positively affect inflation and political instability. Those effects are somewhat dampened by corruption's negative impact on government spending. Furthermore, while democracy is found to have no direct impact on growth, corruption is found to be more detrimental to growth in countries with autocratic regimes rather than in democracies. Democracy thus has mitigative effect on corruption. |
