Gautier, LuisVatsa, Puneet2023-05-102023-03-312023-03-312023-02-280307-3378AU6H6 (isidoc)https://hdl.handle.net/10182/16105Remittances are an important source of income for the very countries afflicted by high levels of corruption. However, corruption undermines the development potential of remittances. With this in mind, we propose policy reforms that harness the potential of remittances while mitigating corruption. Unlike previous studies, we point to two channels: (1) the corrupt government’s trade-off between its financial interests (corruption), the provision of a public good, and the gains from a higher inflow of remittances; and (2) the household’s consumption of the public good relative to that of the privately obtained substitute of the public good.8 pagesen© 2022 The Authors.corruptionpublic good provisionremittancesJournal Article10.1111/boer.123961467-85862023-04-01ANZSRC::380115 Public economics - taxation and revenueANZSRC::440703 Economic development policyANZSRC::4407 Policy and administrationANZSRC::4404 Development studiesANZSRC::3801 Applied economicsANZSRC::3802 EconometricsANZSRC::3803 Economic theoryhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives