The Influence of Corruption Control on Gross National Happiness
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https://doi.org/10.60027/iarj.2025.289406Keywords:
Corruption Control, Gross National Happiness, Public AdministrationAbstract
Background and Objectives: The development of countries in the past two decades aimed at making their people happy rather than enhancing their economy. Since many countries with good control of corruption also have high scores on people’s happiness, there should be a study examining the influence of control of corruption on people’s happiness to make a clear judgment whether it has influence or not, and how.
Methodology: The Data used in this research were the control of corruption collected by the World Bank, and the countries’ happiness score collected by the World Happiness Report. The data from 123 countries were analyzed by simple regression.
Results: The analysis showed that the control of corruption can explain 49.6% of the variation in people’s happiness. The coefficient of the control of corruption is 0.82
Conclusions: The control of corruption affects people’s happiness. Therefore, we should support various mechanisms of corruption control through improvements in people’s awareness of the importance of their participation and the importance of controlling corruption to enhance people’s happiness further.
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