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corruption. Despite the ubiquity of literature on corruption, the relationship between a state's political capacity and … corruption has not been addressed by the existing academic literature. To measure the political capacity of a country, the … reducing corruption. On the other hand, a strong political capacity provides them with the opportunity for rent-seeking and …
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Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic … freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on … techniques regressing one or some freedom indices on corruption that do not allow for grasping all the aspects of economic …
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The present work analyzes the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and corruption on the quality of the … environment in the MENA region. Indeed, the magnitude of corruption and the quality of institutions are often cited as the main … recommend greater awareness of the harmful effects of corruption among political and economic actors. …
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corruption index in G20 member countries. This study focused on the effect of education on the level of corruption in the G20 … influence the level of corruption for all G20 member countries, developed member countries, and developing member countries …. Secondary education enrolment showed a negative and significant influence on the level of corruption in all categories of …
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relationships among uncertainty, informal economy, corruption, and economic growth. For this purpose, we considered a set of Middle … Islamicity and democracy on uncertainty, informal economy, corruption, and economic growth using a vector autoregression (VAR … democratic regime to effectively mitigate uncertainty, informal economy, and corruption and contribute to economic growth …
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One of the factors that characterize the different countries of the Balkan area is the level of corruption which, as … between corruption and growth, and there are also theoretical arguments and empirical results that support the opposite view … corruption could be seen as a factor that helps economic growth by speeding up the bureaucratic processing in the short run …
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that in the presence of weak regulations, political conflicts, and corruption, fiscal decentralisation can worsen social or …
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Business bribery is a particularly serious problem in the integration era. First, this article investigates the effects of institutional obstacles on firms' bribery in 131 countries classified by nation income groups. Through the appropriate proposal of fitting functions, the relationship...
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The effects of Internet education on economic growth are examined using a cross-section of 36 high-income countries. Internet usage rates are employed as a proxy for Internet education across countries. Regression results show that the frequent usage of the Internet has a positive and...
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different sector of the economy, for example, the financial sector or the trade sector etc. Traditional neo-classical economic …
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