Corruption and Sustainable Development

Aidt, Toke S.

doi:10.4337/9780857936523.00007

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“…17 It is equal to 1 in the election year. 18 Aidt (2011) provides evidence of a negative impact of corruption on sustainable development. 19 GovSize is the 'fi_sog' index in the Economic Freedom of the World published by the Fraser Institute.…”

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The Electoral Dynamics of Human Development

Castro

Martins

2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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This paper analyses the impact of elections, partisan and political support effects on the dynamics of human development in a panel of 82 countries over the period 1980-2013. A GMM estimator is employed and the results point out to the presence of an electoral cycle in the growth rate of human development. Majority governments also influence it, but no evidence is found regarding partisan effects. The electoral cycles have proved to be stronger in non-OECD countries, in countries with less frequent elections, with lower levels of income and human development, in presidential and non-plurality systems and in proportional representation regimes.

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The Electoral Dynamics of Human Development

Castro

Martins

2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…Corruption has also been blamed for the misuse of public goods. Several studies identify negative links between corruption and environmental quality, increasing deforestation, air pollution, access to drinking water and sanitation and poor national sport performance (e.g., Aidt ; Anbarci et al ; Biswas et al ; Fredriksson and Svensson ; Gholipour et al ).…”

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Control of Corruption and Luxury Goods Consumption

Tajaddini

Gholipour

2018

Kyklos

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Summary This paper investigates the effect of control of corruption on the consumption of luxury goods, after controlling other relevant determinants of luxury spending. The model is empirically tested for 32 developed and emerging economies between 2004 and 2014. Using panel fixed effects, difference generalized method of moments (GMM) and instrumental variable estimation methods, and two measures of the control of corruption (Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index and the World Bank's Control of Corruption Index), the results show that higher levels of control of corruption decrease luxury spending. This relationship is stronger in countries with higher levels of press freedom and information transparency. These findings offer some important implications. Governments and policymakers may develop and implement regulations that increase transparency in luxury gifting and limit corruption practices. Luxury brand companies should further enhance their due diligence obligations to minimise reputational risks in the long term.

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“…Corruption has perilous implications for the economies but in developing economies it particularly has detrimental impacts on socioeconomic indicators. In various forms it retards economic growth (Tanzi & Daveoodi, 1998;Mo, 2001;Meon & Sekkat, 2005;Venard, 2013), destabilize governments (Mbaku & Paul, 1989;Abu, Karim & Aziz, 2015), harms foreign direct investment (Habib & Zurawicki, 2002), decreases public and private sector investment (Alesina & Perotti, 1996;Meon & Sekkat, 2005;Mo, 2001), reduces human capital (Mo, 2001), increases poverty (Gupta, Davoodi & Alonso-Terme, 2002) and adversely affects sustainable development (Dietz, Neumayer & De Soysa, 2007;Aidt, 2010;Venard, 2013). However, the corruption may promote economic growth, the idea stems from Leff (1964) and Huntington (1968).…”

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“…Sustainable development is the most debatable concept with respect to its operationalization. It is captured by genuine saving rate (Auty, 2004;Dietz et al, 2007), sustainable society index (Kerk & Manuel, 2008), two dimensions of human development index and ecological footprint 6 (Moran, Wackernagel, Kitzes, Goldfinger & Boutaud, 2008), genuine wealth per capita (Aidt, 2010;Venard, 2013) and three-dimensional concept of sustainable development, i.e. economic, environmental and social (Kondyli, 2010;Abou-Ali & Abdelfattah, 2013).…”

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Corruption, Political Instability and Sustainable Development: The Interlinkages

Khan

Farooq

2019

JQM

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The study empirically probed the interdependence among corruption, political instability and sustainable development for a panel of 28 developing economies and disaggregated sample of lower-middle and upper-middle income economies for the time period 2000-2014. The three stage least square (3SLS) estimation revealed that corruption negatively affects sustainable development and political instability. The political instability impedes sustainable development and corruption. The sustainable development reduces political instability and corruption. It explains that corruption enhances political stability and political stability increases corruption. The disaggregated estimates of developing economies are almost same as aggregate estimates of developing economies, however political instability has statistically insignificant effect on sustainable development in upper-middle-income economies. To go forward for sustainable development, the elimination of corruption is imperative.

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Corruption and Sustainable Development

Cited by 65 publications

References 87 publications

The Electoral Dynamics of Human Development

The Electoral Dynamics of Human Development

Control of Corruption and Luxury Goods Consumption

Corruption, Political Instability and Sustainable Development: The Interlinkages

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