In this paper, we examine the microeconomic determinants of the perception of corruption in twelve Sub-Saharan African … countries. Unlike the indicators of corruption based on the opinion of international experts, the study focuses on corrupt … the individual characteristics such as age and sex significantly affect the perception people have of corruption as do …

While methodologies and survey techniques recorded progress over the years, corruption measurement remains a many …-headed monster. Since 2003 and the first publication of Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer, researchers have … access to population's feeling about the corruption scourge across institutions. Thereby, wider room emerged for populations …

We explore the consequences of bad governance and corruption for public debt and welfare in a model of policymaking … point of this paper is that corruption can enhance welfare in two ways: first, by mitigating the inflationary bias of … accumulation. The paper thus invokes the lack of interest for explaining the prevalence of corruption in countries with low …

We study the problem faced by firms that invest in a foreign country characterized by weak governance. Our focus is on … study the determinants of the quality of governance and whether and how political risk insurance of foreign direct … investments improve upon it. We find that it does not always improve upon all governance indicators. It always decreases the …

This paper analyses the relationships between environmental compliance, corruption and environmental regulations in the …-compliance and corruption conditioned to the efficiency of the legal and regulatory framework. Moreover, we show that environmental … efficiency reduces corruption and environmental non compliance which are positively correlated and conditioned to judicial …

In this paper, we analyze the interaction between corruption, taxation and economic growth. Our contributions are … twofold. Theoretically, in an endogenous growth model, we introduce corruption in two different ways: corruption in the public … expenditure and corruption in the public revenue. We show two opposing effects. Under certain conditions, corruption can affect …

We develop a model of optimal pattern of economic development that is first rooted in physical capital accumulation and … importation of technological capital to the second stage of development. This result is due to a threshold effect from which new …

technological innovations, promotes such a polluting development process, escaping a trap where the economy is relegated to a low …

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Vietnam is used way below its full potential. In spite of efforts to further … registered as at 2 December 2009. This development progress is low to the country's greater potential and makes it as a late …