Does Corruption Really Disappear as Countries Grow Richer?

Date: 

Thursday, February 10, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Virtual event, registration required

This webinar will be given by Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Series. This event is cosponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. 

Yuen Yuen Ang is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption (2020). In 2021, she was named by Apolitical among the Top 100 Most Influential Academics in Government. She is also the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholar from the American Political Science Association for "impactful contributions to comparative politics." 

Discussant: Patrick O. Okigbo, founder of Nextier and M-RCBG senior fellow.

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