ABSTRACT
He high lighted research by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis that concluded that “‘A belief in hell tends to mean less corrup tion and less corrup tion tends to mean a higher per capita income . . . there fore all else being equal, the more reli gious a country, the less corrup tion it will have and the higher its per capita income”’ (cited in Nussbaum 2006: 14). 1 However, Nussbaum cautioned that he was not launch ing a campaign to promote belief in hell as a way to fi ght corrup tion but recog nising that current anti-corrup tion approaches are not provid ing the level of success desired and are failing to examine why indi vidu als choose to be corrupt.
