The Effect of Corruption on Higher Education : A case study of Russia

Sammanfattning

There are 2 terms - sustainability and corruption, one of them is widely familiar among people and the other sounds unfamiliar. Sustainability has many aspects and since 2015 The United Nations adopted The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in which the key 17 Sustainable Development Goals were created. Overall sustainability can be divided into three categories, known as 3 pillars of sustainability - Social, Economic and Environmental. Corruption on the contrary is a more familiar term for people, some people only know this in theory, while other people were part of corruption. Corruption can be presented in many forms, such as bribery, service for a favour, misusing or embezzlement of public money and contracts or job granting to friends and relatives. This study takes an in depth look if corruption has a negative effect on higher education specifically in the case of Russia. The result of empirical analyses showed that corruption has no negative effect on education both in long and short-run term.