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What keeps corruption in check? Politicians have incentives to both avoid and actively oppose corruption when voters … corruption—legislators with influence in the policy-making process—also are well-positioned to benefit from corruption. We thus … wisdom, that as the number of checks increase so also should corruption increase, all else equal. This conclusion follows …
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The article is about the specifics of political control as a form of social control. The author analyzes the practice of political control, identifies social control methods which applicable to the various objects. Particular attention is paid to the mechanisms of solving social problems arising...
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interventions, particularly in areas of public goods provision, voting behaviour, and specific measures to address corruption and …
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Corruption as an institutional factor of the state regulatory efficiency is seen in disfunction of distributed decision … performance. Thus, there are two polar set of institutional factors of state regulatory efficiency: negative (corruption) and …
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The aim of this article is to take stock of the theoretical debate and empirical findings concerning the impact of institutions on economic performance and the channels through which the institutional impact unfolds. The review is limited to work published until 2004 due to space limitations and...
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The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of public spending on economic growth in DR Congo. This is to highlight the non-linear effects of public expenditure on economic growth in the DRC. In view of the results of the econometric regression, there are non-linearities in the...
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nonlinear effect on government effectiveness, political stability, regulatory quality, rule of law and control of corruption …
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The paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of a donor’s choice of the composition of unrestricted and in-kind/restricted transfers to a recipient and how this composition is adjusted in response to changes in the moral hazard behavior of the recipient. In-kind or restricted...
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Corruption is a symptom and outcome of institutional deficiency, with potentially adverse effects on economic growth …. This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the existing evidence on the relationship between corruption and economic growth … findings indicate that corruption has a negative effect on per-capita GDP growth overall. We also report that corruption is …
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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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