After all, high levels of growth translate into large rents that can, through corrupt practices, be distributed to the officials themselves, as well as to their friends and protégé. Eliminate such practices, the logic goes, and officials will be unable to reap large rewards from economic growth – and thus will be less motivated to encourage it.
更加可信的担忧是根除腐败的努力是否削弱政府官员刺激增长的激励。毕竟，高增长水平能带来大量租（rent），而租通过腐败行为在官员本人、他们朋友和亲信之间进行分配。逻辑上，消灭这一行为意味着官员将无法从经济增长中获得大量好处——因此也就没有很强的动力刺激增长。