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Foreign aid, women in parliament and corruption: empirical evidence from the 2000s

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  • Elias K Shukralla

    (Siena College)

  • William J Allan

    (Siena College)

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Using data for the 2000s, this paper explores the impact of foreign aid and the percentage of women in parliament on corruption. In doing so, it combines the aid – corruption literature with the literature that addresses the impact of gender on corruption. We also inquire if aid is more effective in countries with a larger participation of women in parliament. We find that neither aid nor the percentage of women in parliament affects perceived corruption in a significant way. Moreover, the impact of aid on corruption does not seem to be affected by the share of women in parliament.On the other hand,a long-established democracy is consistently found to be significant in affecting corruption.Our results are robust to various specifications, alternative measures of corruption and use of estimation techniques.

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  • Elias K Shukralla & William J Allan, 2011. "Foreign aid, women in parliament and corruption: empirical evidence from the 2000s," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 31(1), pages 519-533.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-10-00473
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    1. Sasiwimon W. Paweenawat, 2018. "The gender-corruption nexus in Asia," Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, The Crawford School, The Australian National University, vol. 32(1), pages 18-28, May.
    2. Valentina Chiariello, 2022. "What happens when women in politics deal with foreign aid: The case of Sub-Saharan countries," PSL Quarterly Review, Economia civile, vol. 75(300), pages 25-46.
    3. Hermann Pythagore Pierre Donfouet & P. Wilner Jeanty & Eric Malin, 2013. "A Spatial Dynamic Panel Analysis of Corruption," Economics Working Paper Archive (University of Rennes & University of Caen) 201324, Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM), University of Rennes, University of Caen and CNRS.
    4. Maria Rosaria Carillo & Valentina Chiariello & Rita De Siano, 2016. "Women in Parliaments and Aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan African countries," Discussion Papers 5_2016, CRISEI, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy.

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