Globalisation, poverty and corruption: retarding progress in South Africa
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Article Title | Globalisation, poverty and corruption: retarding progress in South Africa |
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ERA Journal ID | 32856 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Salahuddin, Mohammad (Author), Vink, Nick (Author), Ralph, Nicholas (Author) and Gow, Jeff (Author) |
Journal Title | Development Southern Africa |
Journal Citation | 37 (4), pp. 617-643 |
Number of Pages | 27 |
Year | 2020 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0376-835X |
1470-3637 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2019.1678460 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0376835X.2019.1678460 |
Abstract | Poverty and corruption can both immiserate a nation. Globalisation through open trade can potentially increase economic growth, providing employment and increased incomes to the poor. Corruption can dampen or even reduce these positive developments. Although globalisation is considered instrumental in development strategies, theoretically, the impact of globalisation on poverty reduction is ambiguous, an ambiguity that is also reflected in the empirical literature. The corruption-poverty literature clearly reveals that empirical findings on such association are at best heterogeneous. This article examines the effects of globalisation and corruption on poverty using time series data for South Africa for the period 1991–2016. Three indicators of poverty and recently developed measures of globalisation and corruption were employed in the logistic regression model used for estimation. The results confirm that globalisation reduces poverty while corruption intensifies it. The globalisation findings are robust across the different measures of poverty while unidirectional results show corruption increases poverty. |
Keywords | corruption; economic growth; globalisation; poverty; South Africa |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440499. Development studies not elsewhere classified |
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Byline Affiliations | School of Commerce |
Stellenbosch University, South Africa | |
School of Nursing and Midwifery | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q5y77/globalisation-poverty-and-corruption-retarding-progress-in-south-africa
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