Business Regulation and Economic Growth: The Indirect Effect of Corruption in Latin America and the Caribbean
Date of Publication
2018 12:00 AM
Security Theme
Economic Stability
Keywords
Economic Stability, srhreports, economicstability, Latin America, Caribbean, economic growth, business regulation, GDP, corruption, trading, greasing the wheels hypothesis, economic stability, regulation, entrepreneurship
Description
"This paper explores how corruption indirectly affects economic growth through business regulation in Latin America and the Caribbean, a relationship that has scarcely been addressed in the literature. Although regulation of the private sector explains GDP per capita, the effect is conditioned by the level of corruption. When the control of corruption is greater, there is an increase in the extent to which bureaucracy when starting a business and trading across borders negatively affects GDP per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean. This finding corroborates the “greasing the wheels” hypothesis."
Business Regulation and Economic Growth: The Indirect Effect of Corruption in Latin America and the Caribbean
"This paper explores how corruption indirectly affects economic growth through business regulation in Latin America and the Caribbean, a relationship that has scarcely been addressed in the literature. Although regulation of the private sector explains GDP per capita, the effect is conditioned by the level of corruption. When the control of corruption is greater, there is an increase in the extent to which bureaucracy when starting a business and trading across borders negatively affects GDP per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean. This finding corroborates the “greasing the wheels” hypothesis."
