International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science

Yazarlar: Md Arif Hosen, Sujan Chandra Paul, Md Harun Or Rosid

Konular:-

Anahtar Kelimeler:Literacy rate,Electoral Process and Pluralism Index,Functioning of Government Index,Political Participation Index,Political Culture Index,Civil Liberties Index

Özet: This study investigates the impact of democracy indices on the literacy rate. Panel Data of 134 Countries from 2007-2018 were collected from the website the World Bank and Gapminder. This study uses Ordinary Least Square (OLS), Pooled Ordinary Least Square (POLS), Driscoll-Kraay (DK), Second Stage Least Square (2SLS), Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) methods. This research has found that political participation index and political culture index has a significant positive relationship with literacy rate in all the method. The functioning of the government index has a significant positive relationship and electoral process and the pluralism index has a significant negative relationship with literacy rate in all the methods except the GMM method. The civil liberties index has a significant negative relationship with literacy rate in POLS and in the other models, there is no significant relationship between the civil liberties index and literacy rate.

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