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Governance Redux: The Empirircal Challenge
Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004
survey of enterprises carried out for the GCR, we find that firms from emerging economies single out corruption and excessive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126032
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UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: PRODUCTIVE, PROTECTIVE AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003
clash, noncompliant behaviors proliferate, among them, tax evasion, corruption, bribery, organized criminality, and theft of …, circumvention, abuse, and/or corruption of institutional rules--comprise what we can be termed underground economies. A variety of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062456
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The Intriguing Nexus Between Corruption and Capital Account Restrictions
Dreher, Axel; Siemers, Lars-H.R. - EconWPA - 2003
The paper develops a theoretical model showing a mutual relationship between corruption and capital account … restrictions. According to the model, higher corruption induces stricter restrictions and vice versa. We test the model using panel … data for 112 countries over the period 1984-2002 and find that corruption and restrictions are indeed mutually determined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556016
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The Paradox of Czech Crusaders: Will They Ever Learn the Corruption Lesson? (Corruption and Anticorruption in the Czech Republic)
Lizal, Lubomir; Kocenda, Evzen - EconWPA - 2001
Corruption has a negative impact on society and economy. The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE …) uncovered dormant possibilities for corruption and necessity for appropriate steps to be taken. We document the state of … corruption in the Czech Republic and the measures introduced to fight it. We cover sectors of society and economy according to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560992
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Generalized Knowledge Index: The Production, and Imputed Gross Future and Present Values of Doctoral Dissertations across Some African Countries
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S. - EconWPA - 2004
The notion that lack of knowledge undermines the economic performance of African countries is deeply and widely held to be true. Yet evidence for the basis of that truth is few and far in-between. This paper first describes a production function approach to the creation of knowledge of African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125639
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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003
Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125760
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Is the Structure of Happiness Equations the Same in Poor and Rich Countries? The Case of South Africa.
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003
Are happiness patterns structurally the same when comparing poor and rich countries? Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show that the relationships between subjective well-being and socioeconomic variables have a similar structure and is U-shaped in age in South Africa as in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407667
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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s
Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004
Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, we use both household and macro data to establish how fast per capita consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level of human capital and how much reflected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407717
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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003
This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407734
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Structural Problems in Namibia's Sectoral and Sub-Sectoral Performance During the 1968-1992 Years
Amavilah, V. Heinrich S. - EconWPA - 2003
A flexible production function analysis is addressed to Namibia's data for the 1968-1992 period to test for evidence of structural problems in sectoral and sub-sectoral performance. The analysis found the primary sector to be characterized by constant returns to scale through the entire 25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408279