College of Administration and Economics

The Department of Economics at the College of Administration and Economics, University of Mosul, discussed the doctoral thesis tagged “The impact of government size on the corruption index in light of the different levels of democracy in selected countries with reference to Iraq”.

The discussion was honored by the presence of the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Thaeir Ahmed Saadoon Al-Samman, and the Dean’s assistants for scientific and administrative affairs.

The current study presented by the student “Mahdi Saleh Suleiman” in the Department of Economics aimed at: The impact of the size of the government on the level of corruption for a sample of 139 developed and developing countries in the world with different levels of democracy, represented by (countries of full democracy, semi-democracy, hybrid and authoritarian) in the period (2003-2021) with special reference to Iraq.

The study reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which were: the existence of an inverse relationship between the size of the government and the level of corruption in full democratic and semi-democratic countries, meaning that the largest government is accompanied by less corruption, and in countries with hybrid systems, the relationship is direct between the size of the government and the level of corruption, meaning the greater the size of the government, the greater the area of corruption.

The discussion committee was headed by Prof. Dr. Hashim Muhammad Abdullah Al-Arkoub and with the membership of Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hussein Kazem from the University of Karbala, Assistant Professor Dr. Ibrahim Adeeb Chalabi, Assistant Professor Dr. Dildar Haider Ahmed from the University of Zakho, Assistant Professor Dr. Nizar Siddiq Elias, and the membership and supervision of Prof. Dr. Mufid Dhanoon Younis.