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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

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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El fortalecimiento institucional de los bancos centrales

Heinrich, Gregor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Annotated remarks made at the 50th Anniversary Conference “Fortalecimiento institucional de los bancos centrales y efectividad de la política monetaria”, of the Central Bank of Nicaragua, February 2010. The paper lays out the importance of institutional strenthening (governance) as an...

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The reality about aid and governance: the threshold theory

Jaouadi, Saïd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The aim of this survey is to explain the real impact of aid on governance in the developing countries: including the subsahara and the MENA region during the period 1990-2004 by using the “threshold theory”. Stephen Knack proved that foreign aid had a harmful impact on the governance of the...

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Corruption and economic growth: A meta-analysis of the evidence on low-income countries and beyond

Ugur, Mehmet; Dasgupta, Nandini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Corruption is a symptom and outcome of institutional deficiency, with potentially adverse effects on economic growth. This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the existing evidence on the relationship between corruption and economic growth - controlling for effect type, data sources, and...

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Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are The Payoffs?

Hunt, Jennifer; Laszlo, Sonia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client’s decision. We test this frame work using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...

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Institutional Change and Firm Creation in East-Central Europe: An Embedded Politics Approach

McDermott, Gerald A. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

A central debate about the transformation of post-communists countries is how the process of institution building impacts firm restructuring and creation. This debate has largely been dominated by approaches that emphasize either the depoliticization of institutional designs or the determining...

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Commercialisation of Microfinance in India: A Discussion on the Emperorâ€™s Apparel

Sriram, M S - eSocialSciences - 2010

specifics cases of four large microfinance institutions in India. The basic argument of the paper is that most of the early … questions the moral and ethical fabric on which some to the large microfinance institutions are built. It ends by answering a …

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Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators

Knack, Stephen; Keefer, Philip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995

This paper compares more direct measures of the institutional environment with both the instability proxies used by Barro (1991) and the Gastil indices, by comparing their effects both on growth and private investment. The results provide substantial support for the position that the...

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Why Are Some Public Officials More Corrupt Than Others?

Hunt, Jennifer - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

institutions. The characteristics of officials’ clients explain most of the variation for bribery rates, but none for bribe amounts … rates and amounts. The results indicate that the bribery rate is higher at institutions with bribe-prone clients, and that … reduce corruption. Overall, the judiciary and the police are by far the most corrupt institutions. …

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Y a-t-il une gouvernance des systèmes d’innovation dans les pays d’Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient?

Arvanitis, Rigas; M'HENNI, Hatem; Tsipouri, Lena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article summarizes observations on the technological and innovation level of four Mediterranean countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia). Although these concepts are still controversial, we try to examine the specific issue of the governance of innovation policies. This approach is most...

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