Corrupting Politicians to Get Out of Unemployment: Empirical Evidence from Africa

Ngono, Jean Francky Landry

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“…The previous work has illuminated the literature on corruption on the one hand and budget allocation on the other, but also on the effects of corruption on public spending. For example, Ngono [26] deals with the problem of corruption, specifically that of politicians seeking employment, and Azam [3] deals with corruption but focuses on its effect on growth in 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries. However, in developing countries, few studies have examined how government efficiency in budget allocation, and particularly rent capture, is perceived as corruption, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa.…”

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Allocating budget in developing countries, the need to fight corruption: evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries

Bazie,

Thiombiano,

Maiga

2024

Futur Bus J

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This paper highlights the need to fight corruption in developing economies to ensure a better allocation of public resources in a context of institutional failure with the discretionary power of budgetary authorities. The study uses a panel of 48 Sub-Saharan African countries by combining several databases (WDI, WGI, SPEED BASE DATA and PWT), estimate by generalized moment method in system, the bias-corrected estimation linear dynamic panel data [6] and the type of error correction (Driscoll–Kraay). The results indicate that the phenomenon of corruption in the form of rent capture has two effects on public resources. One effect is linked to the level of public spending and the other to the distribution of public resources. Thus, corruption leads to an increase in the overall level of public spending. Corruption reduces spending on education, mining and communications, but increases spending on the military, health and transport. The study recommends that political leaders in developing countries strengthen and rigorously enforce anti-corruption laws, and raise public awareness of the underground economy.

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Allocating budget in developing countries, the need to fight corruption: evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries

Bazie,

Thiombiano,

Maiga

2024

Futur Bus J

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Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries to Meet the Challenge of Human Capital Development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

BAZIE,

THIOMBIANO,

MAIGA

2023

J Knowl Econ

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This paper provides both theoretical and empirical evidence on the need to consider institutions in human capital development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. In a model of human capital accumulation with public expenditure where we include a corruption parameter, it is found that when a bureaucrat or any other agent takes away part of the amount allocated to education or health, he reduces the quantity and quality of public services. Moreover, an estimation with the generalized moment method in system on panel data of 35 countries covering the period 1996–2018, the results show on the one hand that corruption manages to reduce the output of education and the average duration of studies and life expectancy of citizens through its negative effect on public spending in the education and health sector. On the other hand, corruption has a direct and negative impact on the performance of education. Indeed, it creates a lack of motivation in learning and in plans to pursue higher education because the return is very low, as is access to health and education services. In addition, corruption also distorts the allocation of public expenditure in favor of military, transport, mining, energy, and fuel expenditure as opposed to health and education expenditure. The effectiveness of governments in combating corruption is fundamental to human capital accumulation in Sub-Saharan African countries.

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Corrupting Politicians to Get Out of Unemployment: Empirical Evidence from Africa

Cited by 2 publications

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Allocating budget in developing countries, the need to fight corruption: evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries

Allocating budget in developing countries, the need to fight corruption: evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries

Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries to Meet the Challenge of Human Capital Development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

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