Corruption and Economic Growth | ||
| Buhuth Mustaqbaliya Scientific Periodical Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 1, December 2012, Pages 201-222 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract Corruption nowadays becomes distinguishing feature of government administration in many countries. The political cover of government position contributes in spreading and growing this phenomenon. The dramatic change in the picture or the concepts of corruption provokes many interested bodies to deal with it seriously, the controversy concentrated on the development of government establishments, modernization of economic polices, and protection of public capital. The main objectives of the paper are to explore the global map of corruption and its trend during the first decade of the 21st century, and identifying the economic cost especially on growth. Both approaches, i.e. descriptive and statistical, will be employed in order to achieve these goals. The paper finds that there is a variation in the level of corruption between countries. European and American countries posses the lowest level, whereas the other states have the highest level.It appears that it is easy to reject the null hypothesis of independency of corruption and economic growth. It appears that there are patterns of relation between corruption and growth. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| KEYWORDS; Economic growth | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 114 PDF Download: 34 |
||