Assertion: corruption | /r/CapableOf | siphon fund
Facets:
value: away from essential public services
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
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.