https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHrtF8WWIAAAcVP?format=jpg&name=large
Notice that this is only a correlation. We don't know if poverty in a country leads to more corruption or if corruption leads to less prosperity for everyone.
(My personal belief is that both of these effects exist. But I have no hard proof for either of these claims)
It's a fact that poverty leads to more corruption
Didn't this chart get any data for Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are after all pro in corruption and poverty both.
It's both. Poverty leads to reliance on international aid and other global institutions which then breeds corruption.
And corruption itself impoverishes the people and disincentives work and investment
Chicken 🐓 vs egg 🍳
Most countries are stuck in a vicious cycle of corruption
This is a good chart for vetting immigrants to USA 🇺🇸 and Europe
No it's not. The country of origin doesn't define a person.
Yes it does most of the time. Stereotypes endure because they are mostly true.
Where is Cuba 🇨🇺?
Obama loves their medical 🏥 system
Interesting to see how this chart, supplied no doubt from a corrupt organisation, still might illustrates the corrupting influence of reserve currency status.
Often those on the right side of the trend line (relatively advantaged, but still admittedly corrupt) cozy with USA and those above and left of the trend line, undeniably decent but repressed gdp.. Ie. The line at the top; New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore, Norway. Improved GDP to corruption ratio could be considered a proxy to hegemony compliance.. Also if you look at English speaking countries you see a stark picture in relation to independence from the USA, you see less corruption seems to = less gdp ... This I think is the hidden reserve currency world TAX
Regarding corruption someone studied the behavior of UN diplomats: who paid parking tickets in NY? Foreign diplomats can claim immunity from parking fines.
Scandinavians paid their parking tickets.
Diplomats from African countries racked up parking fines but paid zero.
I don't think the issue is that poverty causes corruption. Rather, I think it's destructive policies that cause poverty (prevent prosperity, technically) and incentivize corruption.