Relevance of corruption on the effect of public health expenditure and taxation on economic growth |
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| Authors: | Helder Ferreira De Mendonça Adriana Cabrera Baca |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil;2. National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Rio deJaneiro, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | We investigate whether corruption distorts the positive effect of public health expenditure and taxation on growth through panel data analysis of 75 developing countries for the period from 1995 to 2014. The findings indicate that, although both public health expenditure and taxation can increase economic growth, in countries with more corrupt governments this effect is reduced. |
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| Keywords: | Corruption public health expenditure taxation economic growth developing economies |
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