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Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …
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Efficiency scores of the National Innovation System (NIS) for 22 countries, including the BRICS, G7, are calculated with the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Relevant factors that may affect the innovation system efficiency are summarized based on the NIS Approach and the New Growth Theory....
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Among ENP countries, Azerbaijan is outstanding because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU at the receiving end of bilateral relations. At the other extreme, Ukraine depends on EU cooperation, especially with respect to trade. We develop a comprehensive theoretical concept for...
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Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...
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Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755119
Corporation (MCC) was successful in promoting better control of corruption. We employ a difference … corruption over time. We conclude that – if designed properly –conditionality can work …
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The paper discusses the impact of corruption on the probability of violent conflict events and traces the shifts in the … little interaction between empirical corruption research and the empirical research into civil wars. When the two strands of …
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Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2004 survey show … that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the … general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves. However …
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To solve the corruption problem, its root causes should first be diagnosed and factors supporting it should be …, thereby increasing corruption. Even worse, there are 'spurious' intermediaries who obtain bribes from public services by …
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This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country … States from corruption-ridden countries are more likely to be apprehended than individuals from less corrupt countries are. …
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