Digitalization of the national economy as an objective basis for improving the effectiveness of anti-corruption policy

Abstract

The study aims to establish the relationship between the level of digitalization of the national economy and the success of the state’s anti-corruption policy. Clarification of the current methods of quantifying corruption has shown that nowadays the only relevant index reflecting the national corruption indicator is CPI. Based on the analysis of its values for 2018–2022, the leaders among European and Asian countries – Denmark and Singapore – were identified, with which a comparative analysis of the digitalization of Russia’s national economy was conducted using the Digital Evolution scorecard. The results showed that the anti-corruption policies of countries that have completed digitalization or are actively pursuing it are the most successful. This suggests that the digitalization of the national economy is one of the key conditions for increasing the effectiveness of anti-corruption policy. In confirmation, the positive effect of the influence of the national economy’s digitalization on the socio-economic system as a whole and a number of groups of factors that lead to the emergence of corruption were noted.