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institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating … recommends the need for restoring confidence, transforming institutions(procedures), providing specialized assistance, acting …
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For U.S. recessions since 1948, we study paneled time series of (i) ExUR, the excess of the unemployment rate over the … maximum effect of NGAP on unemployment occurs with a lag of 2 to 3 quarters. …
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The U.S. manufacturing sector has become the poster child of the jobless recovery, the latest victim of the Bubble Economy. On Labor Day 2003 President Bush called for the creation of a new position of Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing in the Department of Commerce. The National Association...
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negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the rate of vacancies, which is efficiently estimated using spatial … structural factors such as the evolution of long term unemployment, it is also affected by business cycle fluctuations. The role …
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. Finally, the 2007 survey on the money transfer activities (hawalas) shows that these institutions have a significant impact on …
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Drawing from the literature on the determinants of corruption, this article examines the relationship between corruption and the nature of state of fragility. Robust empirical evidence shows a correlation between the level of corruption and state fragility. In a further assessment with the...
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Corruption increases inequality in the society (Gupta et al, 1998) by reducing economic growth, biasing the tax system, reducing the amount and the efficiency of spending on key areas for human capital formation. Mohtadi and Roe (2002) and Mohtadi and Agarwhal (2002) argue that democracy first...
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This article suggests updating the synthesis of the empirical literature on the corruption. Indeed, the literature on the economy of the corruption strongly developed these last years so much point of view theoretical as empirical. In this article, we focus on the consequences of the corruption....
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Cet article propose d’actualiser la synthèse de la littérature empirique sur la corruption. En effet, la littérature sur l’économie de la corruption s’est fortement développée ces dernières années tant du point de vue théorique qu’empirique. Dans cet article, nous nous...
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The role of institutions in promoting economic growth and development has generated considerable interest among … researchers and practitioners in recent years. This paper explores the role of state institutions in promoting growth using a GMM … econometric model. Specifically it attempted to test impact of two dimensions of institutions on growth using recently developed …
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