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This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies covering its two main dimensions namely Risk reducing technologies and Anti Rent seeking technologies and in turn covers several social, institutional, political and economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and...
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Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore,...
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, it does not follow that it is universally useful. We argue that attempts to measure corruption can be counterproductive … explanation of why extremely distorted and biased measures of corruption continue to be used is also offered. …
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more injury, national economy came to be dominated with corruption, lack of restructuring, masked or unmasked subventions …
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Electric power is so vital to both our economic and personal wellbeing that the erstwhile state policy in most of the developing countries, including India, had vested the power industry in the hands of the state as a promotional agency for subsidized supply. However, with the onset of the...
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Education in Central Eurasia has become one of the industries, most affected by corruption. Corruption in academia … addressed in few scholarly works. This paper considers corruption in higher education as a product of interrelations between the … government and academia. A substantial block of literature considers excessive corruption as an indicator of a weak state. In …
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Corruption in higher education has long been neglected as an area of research in the US. The processes of … access. Every nation solves problems of access, quality, and equity differently. Thus, although prosecuting corruption in … paper addresses the question: How is corruption in higher education understood and defined in legal cases, what particular …
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districts. Corruption and other forms of misconduct may be modeled in large educational organizations with strong vertical and … automata to study corruption in large educational organizations, including school districts and state university systems. The …
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We develop a model for developing countries that investigates the factors behind agglomeration of activities in urban giants. Firstly we show that relatively easier market access to external demand provided by the urban giant tends to attract entrepreneurs to this place. Secondly we find that...
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It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is … experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices …, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different …
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