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are among the best antidotes to corruption, shadow economies, criminal injustice and poverty. The presence of accountable …
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for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different …
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Agricultural productivity in 41 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1960 to 1999 is examined by estimating a semi-nonparametric Fourier production frontier. Over the four decades the estimated rate of productivity change was 0.83% per year, although the average rate from 1985-99 was a strong...
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In most African economies, both agricultural production and the terms- of-trade are highly uncertain. This paper re-examines the implications of such uncertainty for the optimal mix of production and trade under alternative assumptions about international capital flows. The ultimate objective is...
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illustrate the interrelationships between natural resources, corruption and economic growth in Nigeria. We proposed anti-corruption …
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corruption on the one hand, and growth and investment on the other, and it highlights the costs to economies where the state is …
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grounds. The first is that they prevent corruption, the second is that they democratize the financing of campaigns by …
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traditional anticorruption measures such as the increase in corruption costs or the organization of public education campaigns … would not permanently reduce corruption levels if poverty remains diffused. Using an overlapping generation model based on a … mechanism of cultural transmission, we study the evolution both of social attidudes towards bureaucratic corruption and the …
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corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …
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The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices … are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication of how much economic loss is attributed to corruption. Arguably …
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