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Studies on the causes of income differences between the rich and the poor have received an extensive attention in the inequality empirics. While ethnic diversity h asalso been identified as one of the fundamental causes of income inequality, the role of institutions as a mediating factor in the...
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Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … corruption (corruption-control) effects. Thus the intuition is assessing how globalization is instrumental in the fight against … corruption through human development (economic and social dimensions) and government quality (political dimension). Findings …
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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 …
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corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are …
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This study checks the effect of foreign aid on terrorism and FDI, conditioned on domestic levels of corruption …
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rate, political stability and corruption shape the relationship between natural resources and tourism revenues. This study … world from 1996 to 2018. First, our results indicate that natural resource dependence negatively impacts tourism revenues …. Second, above certain thresholds, natural resources curse the tourism sector through the corruption of exchange rate. These …
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growth, capital stock (CAPSTK) - proxy for capital investment in Nigeria and Control of Corruption and Regulatory Quality … and short run, although, the short run did so at 10% significant level. Contrary to expectations, control of corruption …
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components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity … account for government quality dynamics of corruption-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A …
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finance. It is a natural extension of "Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç …) hypotheses that English common-law countries tend to have better developed financial intermediaries than French civil-law …
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This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate …-levels, legal-origins, religious-dominations and press-freedom to account for government quality dynamics, of corruption …-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political-stability, regulation quality and the rule of law. Findings show …
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