eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Finance and Economics 2328-7276 2019-01-04 7 1 14 22 10.12691/jfe-7-1-2 JFE2019712 article Jennifer Frimpong 1 Stepana Lazarova 2 Samuel Asante Gyamerah saasgyam@gmail.com 3 Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom Pan African University, Institute for Basic Sciences, Technology, and Innovation, Kenya This paper investigates the impact of an anti-corruption instrument on economic growth among Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states. We employed the years of ratification as the measure of the policy, fixed effect and difference-in-difference method to find the causal effect of anti-corruption policy on economic growth. The results show that for anti-corruption policy to have an effect on an economy the various institutions should be made proactive in the SADC member States. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jfe/7/1/2/jfe-7-1-2.pdf anti-corruption economic growth SADC member states