TN Ninan in his new book draws on an earlier piece of mine suggesting there might be a corruption Kuznets curve.

Here's an excerpt from TN Ninan's new book:

http://scroll.in/article/762603/if-rich-countries-are-more-corrupt-what-explains-corruption-in-india

Here's my op-ed in the International Herald Tribune (now the International New York Times) from 2011 which put forward the hypothesis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/opinion/14iht-eddehejia14.html?_r=0