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The nature of corruption: An interdisciplinary perspective

Dimant, Eugen - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

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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Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

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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Corruption and Armed Conflicts: Some Stirring Around in the Governance Soup

Andvig, Jens Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

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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Can Oil-led Growth and Structural Change Go Hand in Hand in Ghana? A Multi-sector Intertemporal General Equilibrium Assessment

Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...

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Desert Power 2050: Regional and sectoral impacts of renewable electricity production in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Wiebelt, Manfred; Blohmke, Julian; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

“Desert Power 2050” is probably the world’s most ambitious strategy report towards the decarbonization of the power sector in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EUMENA). The report inspired by the Desertec vision aims at providing clean energy from MENA’s desert regions to the...

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The Use of Collateral in Formal and Informal Lending

Kislat, Carmen; Menkhoff, Lukas; Neuberger, Doris - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Apart from altruistic reasons, NGOs may engage in developing countries under conditions of conflict and war in order to secure funding and survive in the ‘market’ of humanitarian relief and development assistance. Applying a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach, we analyze...

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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

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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Boda-bodas rule: Non-agricultural activities and their inequality implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Diversification into non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be broadly classified as either survival-led or opportunity-led. The existence of these two types of non-agricultural activities implies a U-shaped relationship between the share of income derived from non-agricultural...

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Hidden Economies and the Socially Optimal Fiscal-Tax to Liquidity-Tax Ratio

Ercolani, Marco G. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Differential tax analysis is used to show how the socially optimal fiscal-tax to liquidity-tax ratio changes with the relative size of the tax-evading hidden economy. The smaller the relative size of the hidden economy, the larger the optimal fiscal-tax to liquidity-tax ratio. The empirical...

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Informal-formal Linkages and Informal Enterprise Performance in Urban West Africa

Böhme, Marcus; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Employing a unique dataset that covers almost 6000 informal enterprises from six West African urban centers, this paper examines the backward and forward linkages of these enterprises to the formal sector. We first provide a descriptive analysis of the existing formal-informal linkages. It turns...

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