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Education as a tool in the fight against corruption has been subject to much debate in academic and policy making … corruption. Second, there is evidence of an incremental effect in the transition from secondary to tertiary education. Third …, lifelong learning defined as knowledge acquired during primary, secondary and tertiary education negatively affects corruption …
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stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate … corruption-control. On the other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels … corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature, we establish causal evidence of …
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classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data …/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more …
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With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …
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Purpose - Education as a weapon in the fight against conflict and violence remains widely debated in policy and academic circles. Against the background of growing political instability in Africa and the central role of the knowledge economy in 21st century development, this paper provides three...
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A previous analysis of the impact of formal institutions on the knowledge economy of 22 Middle-Eastern and Sub-Sahara African countries during the 1996-2010 time period concluded that formal institutions were necessary, but inadequate, determinants of the knowledge economy. To extend that study,...
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We argue that there exists an indirect link between globalization and the knowledge economy of African countries in which globalization influences 'peace and stability' and peace and stability affects governance, and through governance the knowledge economy. We model the link as a three-stage...
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A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme...
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on corruption is most significant in: Middle-income, French civil-law, Christian-dominated, non-oil exporting and …We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of … foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional …
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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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