Background: In order to achieve development, there is a need to pay attention to corruption, violence and poverty of nations, which stems from the lack of economic ethics and business environment ethics. Fundamental elimination of corruption, violence and poverty of nations in line with the practical motivations of economic development will not be possible except with the growing link between economic ethics and business environment ethics. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between ethics and business environment on economic development.
Methods: The research method is applied and correlational. Macroeconomic indicators of business environment, ethics index and economic development index of Iran have been selected as a statistical population that the years 2006-2007 were selected as a research sample. The data measurement tool was the World Bank and the International Institute for Transparency. Lorenberg-Marcardt method and perceptron neural network analysis and artificial intelligence were used for the test.
Results: The fit of the research model, which included a main hypothesis, was confirmed. Ethics and ease of business environment have a significant relationship with development and will be more effective over time.
Conclusions: Two specific factors are among the most important factors affecting economic growth and development, one of these two factors is financial and moral corruption and the other is the ease of business environment, so the results show that ethics Economic and ethics of the business environment affect economic development.