Investingating the causal relationship between poverty and corruption in the middle east countries (Granger-Hsiao, Toda and Yamamoto causality approach in panel data)

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between poverty and corruption in the middle east countries over the years 1390-1398 using the Granger - Granger causality test, grenger and Yamamoto in the panel data.

The population studied in this study includes the countries of the middle east. Data panel data on these countries has been collected from reliable international sources, including the world bank, which was tested using Eviews software. the variables used in this study include comparative poverty, corruption, gross domestic production variables, labor force, inflation rate, unemployment rate and wage growth rate.

The results of the study show that the relationship between poverty and corruption in the middle east countries is a one-way causality relationship from poverty to corruption in the middle east countries, meaning that by increasing poverty, corruption increases. This unilateral causality relationship is confirmed unilateral in both causality approaches.Originality/Value: The results showed that by providing proper training, the government could prevent a lot of crruptions and also increase public awareness by creating educational bases at the level of countries and easy access to it for the general public. Then, the government considering the problems of all classes of people, motivates them as much as possible to go less towards corruption. Also, by providing gratuitous assistance to the weak classes of the society prevent these problems as much as possible.