Corruption and Convergence in Human Development: Evidence from 69 Countries During 1990–2012

Ortega, Bienvenido; Casquero, Antonio; Sanjuán, Jesús

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“…For example, Ormerod (2016) showed that the resilience of a country is considerably higher in countries with lower levels of corruption. This paper is in the line of other papers arguing that corruption can have a considerable negative impact on a country's economic development and detrimental effects on the economy (Mauro, 1998;Ortega, Casquero and Sanjuán, 2016;Salinas-Jiménez and Salinas-Jiménez, 2007;Transparency International, 2009), which may in turn lead to more corruption. Public finances in some heavily affected countries during these years have been under significant stress causing a high sacrifice for citizenship.…”

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“…However, findings from a long-run perspective seem to point to a partial catching up between the OECD countries and the rest taking place in the 1913-1970 period, with an overall widening of the human development gap since 1870 (Prados de la Escosura, 2015). Closer to the focus of this paper, Ortega, Casquero, and Sanjuán (2016) showed that the countries' capacity for convergence in human development is subject to the level of corruption, and that convergence is more pronounced in countries with lower levels of corruption. 6 In Table 1, sample sizes between the change in poverty measures and their initial level vary.…”

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Poverty Reduction During 1990-2013: Did Millennium Development Goals Adoption and State Capacity Matter?

Asadullah

Savoia

2017

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While poverty reduction remains central in the Post-2015 Agenda, its determinants remain debated in the literature, especially the role of structural conditions related to governance. This paper provides an assessment of two key dimensions: the global adoption of MDGs and state capacity. We do so by studying whether they facilitated convergence in income poverty measures, using cross-section and panel methods, with data on 89 developing economies for the period 1990-2013. We find that poverty headcount and gap measures tended to decrease faster in countries with initially higher income poverty. Such convergence accelerated after 2000, suggesting that MDGs adoption was instrumental to poverty reduction. However, this still leaves unexplained substantial variation in poverty reduction performance across countries. Such variation is explained by state capacity: countries with greater ability to administer their territories in 1990 experienced faster income poverty reduction and were more likely to have achieved the MDG target. This result is insensitive to robust regression methods and to a large set of controls (initial level of income, dependence on natural resources, education and health inputs, dependence on foreign aid, ethnic fractionalization, regional effects and a set of governance variables). As good governance and effective institutions are included in the Sustainable Development Goals, this result provides empirical justification for this move, suggesting that more effective states could be crucial to sustain the development progress achieved so far.

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“…Local citizen's participation is one of the elements to guarantee that dignity and inclusion are taken under consideration. In this sense, inefficient institutions linked to corruption processes constrain productive activities in low income regions (Ortega, Casquero, & Sanjuán, ) reducing the possibilities of triggering human capabilities (Sen, ).…”

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Local development in a global world: Challenges and opportunities

Vázquez-Barquero

Cohard

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The paper discusses whether local development is still a policy instrument in a globalized world. Territories throughout the world are experiencing greater international competition, and respond by using local resources in an innovative way. Their effectiveness faces important challenges, such as compatibility of goals, innovation, interaction of the forces of development, and strengthening of institutions. What can be learned from local experiences? How does the local actors' participation in local development policies improve results? How can local productive systems compete within the global markets? The cornerstones are institutional change, agreement among the local actors, networks, innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience.

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Corruption and Convergence in Human Development: Evidence from 69 Countries During 1990–2012

Cited by 38 publications

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Three essays on the use of neural networks for financial prediction

Three essays on the use of neural networks for financial prediction

Poverty Reduction During 1990-2013: Did Millennium Development Goals Adoption and State Capacity Matter?

Local development in a global world: Challenges and opportunities

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