title: Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment: A Conceptual Review
abstract: This paper carefully reviews the empirical literature on the relationship of corruption and FDI inflow from 2000 to 2019 with a focus on more recent studies. Though corruption is not a new phenomenon, its pervasiveness in the contemporary era, as well as its role in modern economy, has continued to attract the interest of scholars and development institutions in recent times. Theoretically, there are two conflicting views on corruption. The “grabbing hand” hypothesis maintains that corruption ra
journal: Indian-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Finance