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

Didn't this chart get any data for Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are after all pro in corruption and poverty both.

It's a fact that poverty leads to more corruption

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.

This is a good chart for vetting immigrants to USA 🇺🇸 and Europe