Universitas Indonesia Conferences, Asia Pacific Business and Economics Conference

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E-Government and Corruption: Experience from Asia Pacific Developing Countries
Esra Yepasa, Dyah Setyaningrum

Last modified: 2017-12-22

Abstract


The purpose of the study is to analyze the effect of e-government implementation on corruption perception level in Asia Pacific developing countries. The presence of e-government, as a path for increased transparency in good public governance, is expected to reduce corruption in Asia Pacific developing countries. E-government in this study is measured by E-Government Development Index (EGDI) composed by United Nations. The sample consists of 23 countries with 109 observations, covering the period from year 2010-2015. The result reveals that e-government has negative effect on corruption when e-government implementation level is high. Using three sub-components of EGDI, it found that the telecommunication infrastructure index has negative effect on corruption. The result is clearly important to bring awareness to developing countries in Asia Pacific region to move forward their e-government’s implementation and telecommunication infrastructure to the next level as one of the effective anti-corruption strategies.


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