-- From TED Blog
http://blog.ted.com/ted-community-news-2-19-15/
The link between corruption and poverty. Many countries have high levels of corruption. But does corruption correlate with economic development? In an article in this month’s MIT Technology Review, economists Michal Paulus and Ladislav Kristoufek take a look at data collected by Peter Eigen’s organization Transparency International. They conclude that, “The ranking of countries according to their corruption perfectly copies the ranking according to the economic performance measured by the gross domestic product per capita.” This brings them a step closer to understanding a thorny paradox: does corruption cause poverty or does poverty cause corruption? (Watch Peter’s TED Talk, “How to expose the corrupt.”)
-- From TED Blog http://blog.ted.com/ted-community-news-2-19-15/
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