I came across an interesting paper on the impact of higher salaries on corruption – “Does Raising Police Salaries Lower Petty Corruption? A Policy Experiment on West African Highways by Jeremy Foltz and Kweku Opoku-Agyemang. 
The research focused on West Africa’s highways where the police were given higher salaries in the hope that this would lead to the end of corruption, inefficiency and bribery by the Ghanian police. However what actually transpired was that it actually energised police efforts to collect bribes rather than decrease petty corruption.
The data was collected using lorry drivers on the roads of Ghana and Burkina Faso. Drivers with all the correct papers were asked to record how many times they were stopped and how much money they paid to police and customs officials along the route – see map. On examining the data of 2,100 long-haul journeys they found that raised salaries for Ghanaian police…
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