Corruption and public spending on education and health

Swaleheen, Mushfiq; Ali, Mohamed Sami Ben; Temimi, Akram

doi:10.1080/13504851.2018.1468549

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“…In addition, a positive change in the interaction variable between financial inclusion and education also significantly reduces corruption in African countries. This result is in line with the result found by Sharma and Paramati (2021) when they found that education plays an important role in controlling corruption, as in Dridi (2014) and Swaleheen et al (2019). This result can be justified in two ways, the first is that education is a major determinant of financial inclusion in Africa, facilitating the demand and better use of financial products and services (Soumar e et al, 2016).…”

Section: The Effect Of Financial Inclusion and Innovation On Corruptionsupporting

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Controlling corruption in African countries: innovation, financial inclusion and access to education as alternative measures

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2023

IJSE

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PurposeThis study aims to examine the impact of financial inclusion and financial innovation on corruption, considering the moderating role of education, as well as identify the specific modality of digital inclusion and payments that contribute to corruption reduction.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses a representative sample consisting of 46 African countries in three different years 2011, 2014 and 2017. On the data, feasible generalized least squares (FGLS), instrumental variables – two stages least squares (IV-2SLS) and two-stage generalized method of moments (IV-2GMM) model estimation methods were employed.FindingsThe results suggest that financial inclusion and education significantly reduce corruption. As well, the interaction between financial inclusion and education reduces corruption. Additionally, the authors find that the expansion of bank credit and the use of credit and debit cards are the specific modes of financial inclusion and digital payments that can contribute to corruption reduction.Research limitations/implicationsThis study awakens policymakers in African countries about the need to consider education as an alternative measure to support financial inclusion and reduce the use of physical cash in transactions for an effective fight against corruption.Practical implicationsRegarding practical implications, the study shows that financial inclusion besides reducing poverty for households can contribute to macroeconomic stability in Africa.Originality/valueThe study uses a representative sample composed of 46 African countries and considers the role of education in moderating the relationship between financial inclusion and financial innovation on corruption. Furthermore, the study identifies the specific modality of financial inclusion and digital payments that contribute to corruption reduction.

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Section: The Effect Of Financial Inclusion and Innovation On Corruptionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Controlling corruption in African countries: innovation, financial inclusion and access to education as alternative measures

Jungo

Madaleno²,

Botelho³

2023

IJSE

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“…In countries with higher burdens of corruption, the potential COVID-19 burden may be particularly great in poorer communities with less capacity to access healthcare and given social security during such outbreaks is likely to be especially weak. Such effects may be medicated through existing implementation failures of infrastructure budgets (Gillanders, 2014), resulting in communities exposed to higher differential infection risk, even if direct public health spending has a complex relationship with corruption measures (Factor & Kang, 2015;Swaleheen et al, 2019).…”

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Sociocultural, behavioural and political factors shaping the COVID-19 pandemic: the need for a biocultural approach to understanding pandemics and (re)emerging pathogens

Friedler

2020

Global Public Health

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Although there has been increasing focus in recent years on interdisciplinary approaches to health and disease, and in particular the dimension of social inequalities in epidemics, infectious diseases have been much less focused on. This is especially true in the area of cultural dynamics and their effects on pathogen behaviours, although there is evidence to suggest that this relationship is central to shaping our interactions with infectious disease agents on a variety of levels. This paper makes a case for a biocultural approach to pandemics such as COVID-19. It then uses this biocultural framework to examine the anthropogenic dynamics that influenced and continue to shape the COVID-19 pandemic, both during its initial phase and during critical intersections of the pandemic. Through this understanding of biocultural interactions between people, animals and pathogens, a broader societal and political dimension is drawn as a function of population level and international cultures, to reflect on the culturally mediated differential burden of the pandemic. Ultimately, it is argued that a biocultural perspective on infectious disease pandemics will allow for critical reflection on how culture shapes our behaviours at all levels, and how the effects of these behaviours are ultimately foundational to pathogen ecology and evolution.

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“…The obtained results of this study show a negative effect of GDP per capita, government spending, and financial freedom on reducing corruption. The reasons for these results may be: (i) More government spending would open opportunities for private gains (Swaleheen et al 2018); (ii) more financial freedom boosts economic growth, improves income (Abid et al 2016;Akhmat et al 2013;Nguyen et al 2019c), which provides a "fertile land" for corruption; (iii) Rose-Ackerman (2008) argues that corruption is not different from trade activities. Individuals or enterprises accept the purchase because they want to achieve their own goal faster than others, or they want to overcome the cumbersome regulations of the law.…”

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“…In addition, corrupt activities are also transforming, from cash receiving to exploit policy loopholes. As a result, it is a challenging to detect corruption (Dias and Tebaldi 2012;Swaleheen et al 2018).…”

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Impact of Economic Freedom on Corruption Revisited in ASEAN Countries: A Bayesian Hierarchical Mixed-Effects Analysis

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Ngọc

2021

Economies

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Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on developed and developing groups, while the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries have drawn much less attention. Empirical findings are most often conflicting. Moreover, previous studies performed rather simple frequentist techniques regressing one or some freedom indices on corruption that do not allow for grasping all the aspects of economic freedom as well as capturing variations across countries. The study aims to investigate the effects of ten components of economic freedom index on the level of corruption in ten ASEAN countries from 1999 to 2018. By applying a Bayesian hierarchical mixed-effects regression via a Monte Carlo technique combined with the Gibbs sampler, the obtained results suggest several findings as follows: (i) In view of probability, the predictors property rights, government integrity, tax burden, business freedom, labor freedom, and investment freedom have a strongly positive impact on the response perceived corruption index; (ii) Government spending, trade freedom, and financial freedom exert a strongly negative effect, while the influence of monetary freedom is ambiguous; and (iii) There is an existence of not only random intercepts but also random coefficients at the country level impacting the model outcome. The empirical outcome could be of major importance for more efficient corruption controlling in emerging countries, including ASEAN nations.

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Corruption and public spending on education and health

Cited by 26 publications

References 8 publications

Controlling corruption in African countries: innovation, financial inclusion and access to education as alternative measures

Controlling corruption in African countries: innovation, financial inclusion and access to education as alternative measures

Sociocultural, behavioural and political factors shaping the COVID-19 pandemic: the need for a biocultural approach to understanding pandemics and (re)emerging pathogens

Impact of Economic Freedom on Corruption Revisited in ASEAN Countries: A Bayesian Hierarchical Mixed-Effects Analysis

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