Human Capital, Remittances, and Corruption in Mexico and Central America

This work investigates the associations between increasing the quality of education, and the control of corruption, violence and emigration. Models are presented whose estimations show that increasing the quality of education is a means to achieve improvements in the rate of economic growth, in probity, as well as to reduce the homicide rate and discourage emigration. The work emphasizes the importance of increasing taxation with a view to increasing social spending and demonstrates that increasing tax collection leads to increasing the rate of economic growth. The work ends with a series of conclusions and recommendations.