Impact of democracy on literacy rate

A cross country study

Authors

  • Md Arif Hosen Department of English, University of Barishal, Bangladesh
  • Sujan Chandra Paul Department of Accounting & Information Systems, University of Barishal
  • Md Harun Or Rosid School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v9i7.968

Keywords:

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

Abstract

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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Author Biographies

Md Arif Hosen, Department of English, University of Barishal, Bangladesh

Md. Arif Hosen is an assistant professor of English at University of Barishal. He has completed his BA (Hons) in 2004 from University of Dhaka and MA in 2005 from University of Dhaka. Later he joined as a Lecturer of English at University of Barishal and promoted to Assistant Professor in the year 2016. He has publised a number of research articles in reputed national and international journals.

Sujan Chandra Paul, Department of Accounting & Information Systems, University of Barishal

Sujan Chandra Paul is an Assistant Professor of Accounting & Information Systems, University of Barishal. He has completed his BBA and MBA degree from University of Dhaka in 2007 and 2009 respectively. After that he had completed his professional chartered accountant degree in 2014. He is now an Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA). He has published more than 15 articles in national and international journals. He also working as an associate editor of Barishal University Journal of Business Studies. 

Md Harun Or Rosid, School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Md Harun Or Rosid is a Doctoral Student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He is also working as an Assistant Professor of Accounting & Information Systems, University of Barishal. He has completed his BBA and MBA degree from University of Dhaka in 2007 and 2009 respectively. He has published more than 10 articles in national and international journals. He also worked as an associate editor of Barishal University Journal of Business Studies. 

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2020-12-12 — Updated on 2020-12-13

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Hosen, M. A., Paul, S. C., & Rosid, M. H. O. (2020). Impact of democracy on literacy rate: A cross country study. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478), 9(7), 204–211. https://doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v9i7.968 (Original work published December 12, 2020)

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Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities & Social Sciences