Corruption, remittances, and public goods: A unified framework

Luis Gautier and Puneet Vatsa

Bulletin of Economic Research, 2023, vol. 75, issue 4, 1078-1085

Abstract: Remittances are an important source of income for the very countries afflicted by high levels of corruption. However, corruption undermines the development potential of remittances. With this in mind, we propose policy reforms that harness the potential of remittances while mitigating corruption. Unlike previous studies, we point to two channels: (1) the corrupt government's trade‐off between its financial interests (corruption), the provision of a public good, and the gains from a higher inflow of remittances; and (2) the household's consumption of the public good relative to that of the privately obtained substitute of the public good.

Date: 2023
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