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This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
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as rule of law, voice and accountability, corruption control, and state capture, we then provide evidence which suggests … emerging economies. We argue instead that sharper focus on external accountability is required, focusing on: transparency … and governance, in controlling corruption, and in improving institutional quality -- although there is clearly variance …
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The Commonwealth Government asked the Productivity Commisison to review cost recovery arrangements across the Government's regulatory,administrative and information agencies,and to develop guidelines for the future application of cost recovery.
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The study of transparency is increasingly a more topical, broadly relevant, but also more under-researched enterprise …. The Asian financial crisis has highlighted not only the welfare consequences of financial sector transparency, sparking a … series of yet unresolved debates, but has also linked this relatively narrow problem to the broader context of transparency …
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We use county data with 3,058 observations to study growth and convergence in the US. We assess the effect of 40 conditioning variables on the counties’ balanced growth paths. Using OLS and 3SLS-IV, the later yielding consistent estimates, we report estimates for the full sample and for metro,...
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We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a bilateral agreement. We explore the strategic implications of this third party involvement. Our main finding is that the potential willigness of the stake holders to make...
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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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