Public Spending and Outcomes: Does Governance Matter?

Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil; Swaroop, Vinaya

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-2840

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“…They accredit this to democracies having greater representation and accountability, so that health issues are promoted, and that voters in democratic countries can elect competent leaders. 68 Another of the results in the study indicate that democracies prioritize water and sanitation issues, which according to the Global Corruption Report 2008 are responsible 65 Gupta, Davoodi and Tiongson (2000) p. 24-25 66 Swaroop and Rajkumar (2002) p. 23. These results also hold in the education sector in terms of increasing primary education attainment.…”

Section: The Policy Outcomes Of Quality Of Governmentmentioning

confidence: 93%

Quality of Government: What You Get

Holmberg

Rothstein

Nasiritousi

2009

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

272

177

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In development policy, international organizations have shifted their focus to the importance of good governance and sound institutions. The theory behind this is that only with a high quality of government (QoG) can a country reap the benefits of economic growth and social development. We review the research behind this policy shift and offer a first benchmark statistical analysis. The first section contains a review of the conceptual discussion of what QoG means. Second, we present four salient approaches pertaining to the outcomes of QoG: the debates concerning QoG and democracy, economic growth, corruption, and the rule of law. The third section uses insights gained from these debates to focus on the policy outcomes of QoG—its effects on social well-being, public health, and environmental sustainability. We conclude by discussing possible pitfalls in future research on QoG and development.

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Section: The Policy Outcomes Of Quality Of Governmentmentioning

confidence: 93%

Quality of Government: What You Get

Holmberg

Rothstein

Nasiritousi

2009

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

272

177

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“…It is often believed that countries with more effective governments tend to have economy that is more effective. Many empirical researches suggest that, it is true, and that countries with more effective government tend to achieve higher levels of economic growth by obtaining better credit ratings and attracting more investment, offering higher quality public services and encouraging higher levels of human capital accumulation, putting foreign aid resources to better use, accelerating technological innovation, and increasing the productivity of government spending (Rajkumar and Swaroop, 2002). Old scholars strongly believed that effective government can boost economic growth.…”

Section: Public Sector Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Efficient and Effective Public Spending for Sustainable Economic Growth

Azhykulova

2015

International Conference on Eurasian Economies 2015

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Nowadays, governments are more careful with the use of resources and attempt to be efficient and effective to achieve sustainable economic development. This paper contrasts the efficiency and effectiveness of public spending of developed and developing countries in current conditions and their impact on economic growth. The author analyses efficiency and effectiveness measures of public spending applied by prominent cross-country empirical studies. The critical success factors for the effective performance of government through World Bank indicator of government effectiveness highlights the role of effective public budget policy. In addition, the Public Sector Performance Index and Public Sector Efficiency Index introduced by Vito Tanzi and other measures of Livio di Matteo, Konstantinos Angelopoulos are examined. Based on these approaches the author proposes several suggestions for the current condition of public budget policies of Central Asian countries and ways of improving the effectiveness and efficiency levels of their public sector. The author argues that the assumption that developing countries are less efficient than developed countries are based on several efficiency variations: the size of government expenditure, a government budget composition, aid dependency, and weak institutions. What is more, findings suggest that countries with relatively small governments that use resources more efficiently tend to achieve higher levels of economic growth that is not always the case for all developed countries. These findings have important implications for assessing the government performance on economic growth.

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“…It further undercuts various dimensions of human well‐being, such as health, access to clean water, and education as well as negatively affects subjective dimensions such as human subjective well‐being and happiness (Halleröd et al. ; Rothstein and Holmberg ; Swaroop and Rajkumar ). Moreover, corruption may have deeper destabilizing consequences in society, as it arguably threatens not only the direct output of government, but also its prerequisite: people's willingness to pay taxes.…”

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Gender and Corruption: The Mediating Power of Institutional Logics

2014

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Scholars have argued that recruiting more women to office is an effective way to curb corruption; however, the more precise mechanisms underlying why this may be the case have remained unclear. We use meso-level theories to elaborate on the relationship and suggest that institutional logics mediate the effect of gendered experiences on corruption. We make two propositions: First, we suggest that the relationship between more women and lower levels of corruption is weaker in the state administration than in the legislative arena, because the bureaucratic administrative logic absorbs actors' personal characteristics. Second, we refine our institutional argument by claiming that the stronger the bureaucratic principles are in the administration, the less gender matters. We validate our theory using data provided by the European Commission (EC) covering the EC countries and original data from the Quality of Government Institute Expert Surveys, covering a larger set of countries on a worldwide scale. The ArgumentCorruption, or the act of using public power for private ends, can be considered a major destructive force for humans and human societies. Research has shown that corruption is one of the most detrimental factors currently afflicting the economies of developing countries. It further undercuts various dimensions of human well-being, such as health, access to clean water, and education as well as negatively affects subjective dimensions such as human subjective well-being and happiness (Halleröd et al. 2012;Rothstein and Holmberg 2012;Swaroop and Rajkumar 2002). Moreover, corruption may have deeper destabilizing consequences in society, as it arguably threatens not only the direct output of government, but also its prerequisite: people's willingness to pay taxes. Its negative consequences are further not isolated to developing countries, but also concern developed countries. In a recent study, Stefan Svallfors (2013) compare attitudes toward taxes and social spending across European countries and conclude that the organization of government affects people's judgments of how well government works (absence of corruption), which in turn affects their preparedness to pay taxes, leading to long-term consequences for possibilities to pursue encompassing welfare state policy. Hence, as an overview by Treisman (2007) shows, a vast body of research confirms how serious the problem of corruption is perceived to be.There are clear correlations between gender and corruption. On the one hand, women suffer disproportionately from the effects of corruption, as women are overrepresented among the world's poor. 1 On the other hand, women themselves, compared to men, tend to be less involved in corrupt transactions. There is a growing body of gender and corruption research exploring the relationships between higher

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Public Spending and Outcomes: Does Governance Matter?

Cited by 83 publications

References 28 publications

Quality of Government: What You Get

Quality of Government: What You Get

Efficient and Effective Public Spending for Sustainable Economic Growth

Gender and Corruption: The Mediating Power of Institutional Logics

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