Impacts of Corruption to Governmental Efficiency in 2015: Case to Latin America Countries

Authors

  • Emanoel de Souza Barros Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
  • Gabriel Britto Feitoza Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21527/2237-6453.2019.49.10-29

Keywords:

Control of Corruption. Governmental Efficiency. Latin America.

Abstract

This paper seeks analyzing the impact of control of corruption on governmental efficiency of 33 countries in Latin America and Caribbean. The data were collected from World Bank (web platform) to 2015. Besides to a descriptive analysis, this paper added two regressions, one OLS and one Tobit, to confirm the effects of corruption control on government efficiency of the countries analyzed. Results show that the corruption framework is endemic in Latin America and Caribbean. Regressions models was estimated considering governmental efficiency score as a function of six explanatory variables (control of corruption, public spending with health, economic contractions, CPI-2010-2015, governmental consumption and public administration in government spending). Results confirm that there are positive relationship between control of corruption and governmental efficiency and identifying the control of corruption like cause of governmental (in)efficiency.

Author Biographies

Emanoel de Souza Barros, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Doutor em Economia pela Université Paris 1 – Pantheon Sorbonne, França. Professor da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE).

Gabriel Britto Feitoza, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Graduado em Economia pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE).

Published

2019-10-17

How to Cite

Barros, E. de S., & Feitoza, G. B. (2019). Impacts of Corruption to Governmental Efficiency in 2015: Case to Latin America Countries. Development in Question Journal, 17(49), 10–29. https://doi.org/10.21527/2237-6453.2019.49.10-29

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