Korruptionens påverkan på sambandet mellan internationell handel och barnadödligheten under fem år.
(2024) NEKH02 20232Department of Economics
- Abstract
- This study aims to analyze how corruption affects the relationship between international trade and child development. Geographically, this study focuses on Sub-saharan Africa, since it has the highest levels of child mortality as well as the highest perceived corruption levels in the world. To evaluate this relationship, a fixed-effects model with robust standard errors has been implemented. The panel data for international trade and child mortality under five consists of 46 Sub-saharan countries between the time period 1990 - 2020. Corruption Perception Index has been analyzed between the time period 1995 - 2020, and distributed into four quantiles to represent different levels of corruption. The results of this study shows that... (More)
- This study aims to analyze how corruption affects the relationship between international trade and child development. Geographically, this study focuses on Sub-saharan Africa, since it has the highest levels of child mortality as well as the highest perceived corruption levels in the world. To evaluate this relationship, a fixed-effects model with robust standard errors has been implemented. The panel data for international trade and child mortality under five consists of 46 Sub-saharan countries between the time period 1990 - 2020. Corruption Perception Index has been analyzed between the time period 1995 - 2020, and distributed into four quantiles to represent different levels of corruption. The results of this study shows that corruption has a significant negative impact on the relationship between international trade and child development. This is consistent for all quantiles, as well as the results from the robust control. However, the study cannot conclude that higher levels of corruption necessarily result in higher levels of child mortality, partly because of insignificant results. Moreover, corruption can be an indirect cause of deficient child development through the restrictions of welfare effects from international trade. Based on these results, a policy reccomendation is made for countries suffering from high levels of corruption and deficient child development. Assuming that lower levels of child mortality is desired, government agencies should prioritize actions to prevent corruption. Future research should further evaluate which parts of corruption that has the largest impact on welfare effects, and target these areas accordingly. (Less)
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- author
- Larsson, Klara LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKH02 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Korruption, barnadödlighet under fem år, internationell handel, subsaharaiska Afrika.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9145053
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- 2024-04-16 09:26:40
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abstract = {{This study aims to analyze how corruption affects the relationship between international trade and child development. Geographically, this study focuses on Sub-saharan Africa, since it has the highest levels of child mortality as well as the highest perceived corruption levels in the world. To evaluate this relationship, a fixed-effects model with robust standard errors has been implemented. The panel data for international trade and child mortality under five consists of 46 Sub-saharan countries between the time period 1990 - 2020. Corruption Perception Index has been analyzed between the time period 1995 - 2020, and distributed into four quantiles to represent different levels of corruption. The results of this study shows that corruption has a significant negative impact on the relationship between international trade and child development. This is consistent for all quantiles, as well as the results from the robust control. However, the study cannot conclude that higher levels of corruption necessarily result in higher levels of child mortality, partly because of insignificant results. Moreover, corruption can be an indirect cause of deficient child development through the restrictions of welfare effects from international trade. Based on these results, a policy reccomendation is made for countries suffering from high levels of corruption and deficient child development. Assuming that lower levels of child mortality is desired, government agencies should prioritize actions to prevent corruption. Future research should further evaluate which parts of corruption that has the largest impact on welfare effects, and target these areas accordingly.}},
author = {{Larsson, Klara}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Korruptionens påverkan på sambandet mellan internationell handel och barnadödligheten under fem år.}},
year = {{2024}},
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