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 Volume 11, Issue 12 (December 2024), Pages: 1-12

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 Original Research Paper

The impact of controlling corruption on government effectiveness in GCC countries

 Author(s): 

 Budoor Salem Alwated *, Rozina Shaheen, Manzar Ahmed

 Affiliation(s):

 College of Business, Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2431-6811

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2024.12.001

 Abstract

This research examines how controlling corruption impacts government effectiveness in GCC countries while also considering independent variables like political stability, industry, gross national expenditure, regulatory quality, and rule of law. The study uses panel data from 2003 to 2022 for six emerging GCC countries: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. Data for this analysis was sourced from the World Bank database, 2023. The study applied the ordinary least squares (OLS) method and accounted for the effects of COVID-19 and the 2008 recession on government effectiveness. Diagnostic tests for autocorrelation, multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity, and normality were conducted to ensure the reliability of the regression results, revealing no issues with multicollinearity or normality. The findings show that control of corruption and other variables significantly affect government effectiveness in GCC countries, with an adjusted R² of 87.4%. The model proposed could be recommended as a tool for assessing government effectiveness in any country.

 © 2024 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords

 Government effectiveness, Control of corruption, GCC countries, Panel data analysis, Regulatory quality

 Article history

 Received 4 July 2024, Received in revised form 3 November 2024, Accepted 14 November 2024

 Acknowledgment

No Acknowledgment.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Alwated BS, Shaheen R, and Ahmed M (2024). The impact of controlling corruption on government effectiveness in GCC countries. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 11(12): 1-12

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