Assertion: corruption | /r/CapableOf | increase poverty
Facets:
value: by slowing economic growth
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Corruption creates and increases poverty and exclusion.
text: 1 Corruption can also increase poverty by slowing economic growth, skewing government expenditure in favor of the rich and well-connected, concentrating public investment in unproductive projects, promoting a more regressive tax system, siphoning funds away from essential public services, adding a higher level of risk to the investment decisions of low-income individuals, and reinforcing patterns of unequal asset ownership, thereby limiting the ability of the poor to borrow and increase their income.