Corruption, remittances, and public goods: A unified framework
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چکیده
Remittances are an important source of income for the very countries afflicted by high levels corruption. However, corruption undermines development potential remittances. With this in mind, we propose policy reforms that harness remittances while mitigating Unlike previous studies, point to two channels: (1) corrupt government's trade-off between its financial interests (corruption), provision a public good, and gains from higher inflow remittances; (2) household's consumption good relative privately obtained substitute good.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of Economic Research
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0307-3378', '1467-8586']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12396