Does Corruption Really Disappear as Countries Grow Richer?

​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.

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.

This event is being co-hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.