The effects of corruption on growth performance of the mena countries

Guetat, Imène

doi:10.1007/bf02761487

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“…This dummy variable has been widely utilisedin the literature. It is argued by many empirical studies (Sachs & Warner, 1997;Guetat, 2006;Akanni, 2007;Brach, 2008;Bakwena & Bodman, 2010;Al-Malkawi & Abdullah, 2011) that countries which are blessed with an abundance of natural resources, usually fail to have high economic growth. Table 2 provides the correlation among the variables included in this study.…”

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The Impact of Corruption on Economic Growth in OIC Countries

Ertimi¹,

Dowa²,

Albisht³

et al. 2016

IJEF

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Economic growth in a country can be attributed to many variables, both positive and negative. Raising the level of human capital, openness and investment are examples of factors typically considered to have a positive impact on economic progress, while corruption is one of the factors that are often seen as detrimental to economic growth. The purpose of this study is to analyse whether the levels of perceived corruption in a cross-section of countries have affected their economic growth rates over the years [2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009][2010]. The study is conducted with a regression on a sample of 14 countries and eight variables for the time period in question. The models are constructed on the basis of the endogenous growth theory. Results using economic freedom index (EFI) shows that corruption has a negative impact of economic growth in the countries in question.

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The Impact of Corruption on Economic Growth in OIC Countries

Ertimi¹,

Dowa²,

Albisht³

et al. 2016

IJEF

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“…Moreover, recent studies have started to discover important relationships at the regional level of analysis. Examples of such studies are Guetet's (2006) work that focused on the Middle East and North Africa, Mobolaji and Omoteso's (2009) research focused on the transitional economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Gyimah-Brempong and Gyimah-Brempong's (2006) work which examined the regional differences from a multi-continental dataset. However, without a single SSA country making the top 30 countries in the corruption perception index (Transparency International, 2011) coupled with governance problems that appear rampant in the region, there could not be a better region upon which to base an assessment of the impact of corruption and governance on economic growth, a research vacuum this study aims to address.…”

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Corruption, governance and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: a need for the prioritisation of reform policies

Omoteso

Mobolaji

2014

Social Responsibility Journal

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Purpose -The general objective of this study is to investigate the impact of governance indices (especially control of corruption) on economic growth in some selected Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries for the period 2002 to 2009. Specifically, the study attempts to assess whether governance reforms (especially those relating to control of corruption) have any impact on the economic growth in SSA countries. It also examines whether simultaneous policy reforms have any impact on economic growth in the region.Design/Methodology/Approach -The governance indices used in this study were drawn from the PRS Group and the World Governance Indicators for the period of 2002 to 2009 while the real GDP per capita growth data were obtained from the World Bank Database. The study covered forty-seven Sub-Saharan African countries and it adopted the panel data framework, the fixed effect, the random effect and the maximum likelihood estimation techniques for the analyses.Findings -The study found that political stability and regulatory quality indices have growth enhancing features, as they impact on economic growth in the region significantly, while government effectiveness impacts negatively on the economic growth in the region. Despite several anti-corruption policies in the region, the impact of corruption control on economic growth is not very obvious. The study also found that simultaneous implementation of accountability and rule of law indicators has more positive impact on economic growth in the region. Both policies are complementary, and hence can be pursued simultaneously.Research Implications -The results suggest that reform efforts that aim at enhancing accountability, regulatory quality, political stability and the rule of law have more growth enhancing features and thus should be given more priority, than reform efforts that singly address the issue of control of corruption, since corruption in the region tends to be endemic, systemic and ubiquitous.Originality/Value -Many previous studies attempt to see the impact of corruption on economies, but this paper tries to assess the reform efforts, governance indices as they impact on economic growth in the most vulnerable region of the world, the Sub-Saharan Africa. Besides, the study adopts the panel data framework which makes it possible to allow for differences in the form of unobservable individual country effects. The use of this unique framework is uncommon in the current corruption-governance-growth literature.

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“…Treisman (2000) argues that the level of corruption depends on the balance between the costs associated with being corrupt and the benefit from it. The economic variables related to corruption determinants and its effects on economic growth are also analyzed (Guetat, 2006;Mauro, 1995Mauro, , 1998. Wu et al (2010) find that in low-income countries, corruption acts as an economic disincentive because it distorts the effect of public expenditure on economic growth.…”

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The effect of corruption on carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption in Tunisia

Sekrafi

Sghaier

2018

PRR

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of corruption on the environmental quality in Tunisia. Indeed, the post-revolution period is characterized by a remarkable increase in the rates of corruption. Design/methodology/approach The direct and indirect effects of control corruption on economic growth and CO2 emissions in Tunisia have been examined using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration framework among corruption, growth and CO2 emissions. Findings Results substantiate a positive and significant relationship between control of corruption and economic growth, a negative and significant relationship between control of corruption and environmental quality (CO2) and a negative and significant relationship between control of corruption and energy consumption. The findings suggest that while the control of corruption contributes to economic growth, its positive effect could be transposed indirectly via its impacts on environmental quality. Originality/value A strategy against corruption will reduce CO2 emissions; however, its positive effect on economic growth indirectly contributes to reverse this relationship.

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The effects of corruption on growth performance of the mena countries

Cited by 51 publications

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The Impact of Corruption on Economic Growth in OIC Countries

The Impact of Corruption on Economic Growth in OIC Countries

Corruption, governance and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: a need for the prioritisation of reform policies

The effect of corruption on carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption in Tunisia

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