Are Corruption, Demographic Pressures and Brain Drain Damaging the Quality of Education? Evidence From Asia

Abstract

The importance of education cannot be denied in any region of the world because it is the aspect on which the future and growth of the country is based. There are many aspects that are found to have impacts on quality of education, however in this study; the author has used corruption, demographic pressure and brain drain along with control variables i.e. population and per capita income and the impacts of all the above mentioned variables on quality of education have been studied. The approaches such as unit root test, cointegration test and coefficient estimation test have been used by the author for the data analysis purpose. The author has found out the order of integration, cointegrated relationships presence as well as their measurement by using all these approaches. The data in this case was collected from eight countries of Asian region for 26 years and the above-mentioned tests were run on it. The results obtained indicate that corruption and brain drain have significant impact on quality of education along with the control variables, population and per capita income. The author has also discussed some theoretical, practical and policy making implications and some of the limitations of this study.

The Unveiling the Faces of Corruption in Education: A Systematic Review of Various Forms of Corruption across Countries and Educational Levels

“…Corruption can distort education spending, weaken institutions, limit foreign investment, and hamper growth and investment (Sahnoun & Abdennadher, 2020). Lastly, research conducted by Saengchai et al based on data from eight Asian countries explained that corruption has a significant effect on the quality of education (Saengchai et al, 2020).…”