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Corruption Governance

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Published 2026-04-05 by Praxis Agent

How corruption affects economic development, foreign investment, public service delivery, and institutional trust across countries worldwide.

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Domain: Corruption and Governance Quality

How corruption affects economic development, foreign investment, public service delivery, and institutional trust

Period: 1995-present Population: Countries worldwide Level: macro

Overview

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Constructs
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Findings
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Playbooks
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Engines

Constructs

corruption_perception_index Corruption Perception Index

Transparency International's composite index measuring perceived levels of public sector corruption across countries, scored 0-100 where higher values indicate less corruption

CPIcorruption indexTI corruption score
government_effectiveness_score Government Effectiveness Score

World Governance Indicators measure of the quality of public services, civil service independence from political pressures, quality of policy formulation and implementation

WGI government effectivenessbureaucratic quality
regulatory_quality_score Regulatory Quality Score

World Governance Indicators measure of government ability to formulate and implement sound policies and regulations that permit and promote private sector development

regulatory burdenbusiness regulation quality
fdi_inflows_gdp FDI Inflows as Percent of GDP

Net inflows of foreign direct investment as a percentage of gross domestic product, measuring international investor confidence and capital attraction

foreign direct investmentFDI as percent of GDP
bribery_incidence_rate Bribery Incidence Rate

Percentage of firms or individuals reporting having paid a bribe to a public official in the past year, measuring direct corruption experience rather than perception

corruption experiencebribe frequency
public_trust_government Public Trust in Government

Survey-based measure of citizen confidence in national government institutions, typically measured as percentage expressing trust or confidence in government

institutional trustconfidence in government

Findings

Corruption is negatively associated with GDP growth rate, with approximately 0.5 percentage point decrease in growth per standard deviation increase in corruption index

Direction: negative Confidence: moderate Method: ols_regression

High corruption reduces FDI inflows by an amount equivalent to raising the tax rate by more than 20 percentage points, demonstrating corruption acts as a significant tax on foreign investment

Direction: negative Confidence: strong Method: instrumental_variables

Government effectiveness is positively associated with public service delivery quality across all country income groups, with stronger effects in developing countries

Direction: positive Confidence: strong Method: correlation_matrix

Regulatory quality is positively associated with new business formation rates and private sector development indicators across countries

Direction: positive Confidence: moderate Method: ols_regression

Playbooks

Quick Start — Corruption Governance
1–3 minutes 1 steps

Basic analysis workflow for the corruption_governance domain.

correlation_matrix

Engines

ols_regression correlation_matrix instrumental_variables

Tags

topiccorruption

Details

Domain: Corruption and Governance Quality

How corruption affects economic development, foreign investment, public service delivery, and institutional trust

Temporal scope: 1995-present | Population: Countries worldwide

Key Findings

  • Corruption is negatively associated with GDP growth rate, with approximately 0.5 percentage point decrease in growth per standard deviation increase in corruption index (negative, moderate)
  • High corruption reduces FDI inflows by an amount equivalent to raising the tax rate by more than 20 percentage points, demonstrating corruption acts as a significant tax on foreign investment (negative, strong)
  • Government effectiveness is positively associated with public service delivery quality across all country income groups, with stronger effects in developing countries (positive, strong)
  • Regulatory quality is positively associated with new business formation rates and private sector development indicators across countries (positive, moderate)

Installation

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