Impact of corruption on GDP per capita through international migration: an empirical investigation

Author Affiliation

Naved Ahmad is Professor at Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Faculty / School

Faculty of Business Administration (FBA)

Department

Department of Economics

Was this content written or created while at IBA?

Yes

Document Type

Article

Source Publication

Quality and Quantity

ISSN

0033-5177

Disciplines

Mathematics | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Abstract

An attempt has been made to examine the impact of corruption on GDP per capita through a migration channel for a sample of 94 developed and developing countries from 1996 to 2010 using cross section and panel data estimation techniques. Our results show that corruption reduces GDP per capita through a migration channel after controlling for other variables. Our analysis suggests that if emigration is increasing due to rampant corruption, this would not have any significant macroeconomic impact on GDP per capita. Therefore, governments of these economies must revisit their policies and control corruption.

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HJRS - W Category, Scopus

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Published

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