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The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An older population, fewer hospital beds, lack of...
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The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on … effect of corruption on economic growth is especially pronounced in autocracies and transmits to growth by decreasing FDI and …
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This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on … seigniorage finance. This leads to an increase in inflation which, in turn, reduces capital accumulation and growth. At the …
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growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …
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the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI … economic growth with the market and disposable Gini indexes, the Palma and S80S20 ratios, and the income of the wealthier 10 … possibility to promote GNI per capita increasing policies, which could lead to higher economic growth while minimizing income …
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reduce the growth rate of the public capital stock. We also show that, in the interior equilibrium, the private asset can …
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its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and … intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk aversion. If growth increases (reduces) intra-generational inequality, the SDR is … lower (higher) and the SCC higher (lower) than along an inequality-neutral growth path, especially if intra-generational and …
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I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …
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corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …
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economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies …
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