The relationship between democracy and corruption in MENA countries
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2016-12
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Université de M'sila
Abstract
The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between democracy and corruption using a Dynamic Generalized Method of Moments (DGMM) during the
period 1984-2013 in 13 MENA countries namely Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran,
Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey and United Arab
Emirates.Our results captured the GDP per capita is feed corruption in MENA countries,
while one percent of per capita GDP rise corruption about 0.73 and lead to lose more
than 0.23 in MENA net oil and gas exporting countries except United Arab Emirates
(See Omgba (2015); Haber and Menaldo (2011)). In this context, magnitude of impacts
in countries non-oil producers is less dependent with corruption over the last decade
compared the two early decades and compares an oil and gas exporting countries. Thus,the high income states of the oil exporting countries would not have been decreased corruption level, (See Jetter (2015), Rachdi and Saidi (2014)). Finally, our finding present a positive significantly associated between democracy and corruption, the influence of positive feedback around about 0.5 points in regressors. According to this estimation, the lower democratization process in MENA countries highly depends to
high levels of corruption
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Corruption, Democracy, MENA Countries, Panel GMM.