Does It Matter for Africa with Whom It Trades? Estimations of the Impacts of Africa's Trade with the EU and China on Corruption

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21520844.2024.2311611" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21520844.2024.2311611</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2024.2311611" target="_blank" >10.1080/21520844.2024.2311611</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does It Matter for Africa with Whom It Trades? Estimations of the Impacts of Africa's Trade with the EU and China on Corruption

Original language description

This research builds upon theoretical assumptions regarding the relationship between openness to international trade and corruption. It seeks to answer the question of whether it matters for Africa with whom it trades. Specifically, our goal is to estimate and compare the impacts of Africa&apos;s trade with two key entities: the European Union (EU), its traditional primary trading partner whose share in Africa&apos;s bilateral trade has recently declined, and China, its emerging trading partner whose share in Africa&apos;s bilateral trade has been steadily increasing. This assessment will be focused on impacts on corruption. Our research utilizes a panel dataset comprising twenty-eight African countries for the period spanning from 2002 to 2016. We employ regression models including pooled OLS, fixed effects, and random effects, drawing upon data from the International Trade Centre, International Country Risk Guide, and the World Bank. Our findings suggest a weak but positive correlation between Africa&apos;s rising trade activity and corruption. However, this correlation is more pronounced in the case of trade with the EU, where the impact is estimated as positive, as opposed to trade with China, where it is estimated as negative. Additionally, while higher natural resources rents tend to have a negative impact on corruption in Africa, our results indicate that this is not the case of rents derived from trade with the EU.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of the Middle East and Africa

ISSN

2152-0844

e-ISSN

2152-0852

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

73-90

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85188276158