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Corruption and Human Development Index: A Global Picture of the Brazilian Panorama Between 2010 and 2018
Olívia Maria Cardoso Gomes (University of Minho, Portugal) and Mara Karinne Lopes Veriato Barros (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8350-9.ch010
Abstract
Corruption is a human phenomenon that covers the whole world. It is a fact that public corruption gains more prominence than private corruption, because the state has the duty of accountability in a transparent way to taxpayers. As a result of this, the authors focus on the analysis of public corruption, which involves agents and public resources of the state. Therefore, this study has the main objective to verify if there is a relationship between IPC corruption (corruption perception index) and HDI (human development index), which posits the hypothesis that the greater the corruption, the lower the HDI indexes. In addition to the CPI and HDI variables, they also analyze the GDP of the countries in a secondary way. The global data analyzed indicate a high correlation between greater corruption and a lower index of human development, which may suggest problems of accountability.