A Review of Corruption and Poverty Relation

Different researches show that there is a close relationship between corruption and poverty. The paper defines corruption and poverty, it discusses available theories and uses statistics to prove the hypothesis that corruption indices can not bore no relationship to human development because developed countries- that corruption indices are taken into consideration in there and they reached good governancehuman development index is raised as well. But in developing countries- that human development index is fell- there is no indices of corruption and good governance. Also corruption has a close and bilateral relationship with poverty. Consequently, it is recommended that due to apply anti-corruption planning and strategies; poverty must be relieved as well as to apply strategies of alleviating corruption, corruption must be combated. Since every country faces to these two serious problems much or less, practically it is necessary to apply two strategies to succeed.