Illicit Financial Flows and Political Institutions in Kenya
- Côte d’Ivoire African Development Bank Group 2017
- 32p.
- Working Paper Series No. 275 .
This paper, published by African Development Bank Group explores a political economy perspective as an alternative explanation to the illicit financial outflows in Kenya. Evidence from the institutional indices found that increased arbitrary executive powers are positively associated with illicit financial outflows. That is, in the Kenyan context, prevailing weaknesses in the political institutions do matter for illicit financial flows (rent extraction). This finding is robust to the constraints on the executive from Polity IV Indicators as an alternative indicator of institutions.
