CORRUPTION AND SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE EU27 COUNTRIES

                         Mihai Mutaşcu, West University of Timisoara
               Dan Constantin Dănuleţiu, “1 Decembrie 1918” University Alba Iulia


ABSTRACT: The corruption is a complex and generalized phenomenon all over the world, with
cultural, social, psychological, political and economical dimensions. The defining and the studying
of the phenomenon are going through the most different thinking filters known in the specialized
literature: social-cultural, political, administrative and economic. The article’s aim is to quantify
and analyze the relationship between corruption and political, administrative and economic
determinants factors, through a regressive "pool data" model. The sample includes the 27 countries
of the actual European Union, and the data refer to the period 1996-2008. The study shows that the
limitation of corruption’s phenomena (maximizing FC index) has the result of increasing of social
welfare (maximizing HDI index).

Keywords: corruption, social welfare, EU27

JEL codes: D73, I30