tradition improves CC. Originality/value – We complement the literature on the fight against corruption in Africa by employing …Purpose – This paper assesses the determinants of corruption-control with freedom dynamics (economic, political, press … characteristic, the following findings have been established. (1) While political freedom increases corruption-control (CC) in a …

, answer questions about corruption, firm performance and how honest they are differently from other managers. If reticent …

Purpose – Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … and financial liberalization are instrumented on human-development and government-quality to account for corruption … (corruption-control) effects. Thus the intuition is assessing how globalization is instrumental in the fight against corruption …

Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing countries? Why are some countries … more effective at battling corruption than others? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption …-control throughout the conditional distribution of the fight against corruption using panel data from 46 African countries for the period …

Purpose – Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across African countries? Why are some … countries more effective at battling corruption than others? To assess these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption …-control throughout the conditional distribution of the fight against corruption using panel data from 46 African countries for the period …

Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight … against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in … the corruption battle? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption-control throughout the …

Recent firm-level surveys suggest that petty corruption is a serious problem for African firms, costing the average … bribes in monetary terms and firms that report them as a percent of sales, and the sensitivity of the corruption question … bribes when they report them in percentage terms. If this is the case, petty corruption might be far less costly than the raw …

If corrupt bureaucrats target registered firms, then corruption may discourage registration. Using data from a survey … of 4,801 microenterprises in Zambia, this paper looks at whether corruption is a more or less serious problem for … about corruption than unregistered firms. This suggests that remaining informal and out-of-sight might reduce the burden of …

This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It … institutions. Moreover, another debate on the incidence of foreign aid distortions on corruption is also assessed in light of a … corruption and institutions are: directly positive; conditionally positive with a magnitude dependent on initial institutional …

This paper considers the effects of corruption and government spending on economic growth. It starts from an endogenous … growth model and extends it to account for the detrimental effects of corruption on the potentially productive components of … and the results show, first, that the growth rate is strongly influenced by the interaction between corruption and …