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Government spending, corruption and economic growth
d'Agostino, Giorgio; Dunne, Paul J.; Pieroni, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper considers the effects of corruption and government spending on economic growth. It starts from an endogenous … growth model and extends it to account for the detrimental effects of corruption on the potentially productive components of … and the results show, first, that the growth rate is strongly influenced by the interaction between corruption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112179
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The impact of ICT on educational performance and its efficiency in selected EU and OECD countries: a non-parametric analysis
Aristovnik, Aleksander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The purpose of the paper is to review some previous researches examining ICT efficiency and the impact of ICT on educational output/outcome as well as different conceptual and methodological issues related to performance measurement. Moreover, a definition, measurements and the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114556
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Социальный контроль как элемент социального управления
Kuznetsova, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The article is about the specificity of social control as an element of social management. The author indicates that social control is carried out within the subject-object relations. The author gives a detailed description of the participants of social relations in social management and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168461
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Проблемы формирования негосударственного сектора социальной работы
Kuznetsova, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The article is about problems of formation the non-state sector of social work in Russia. The author analyzes the specificity of functioning non-state sector of social work. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of public formations the non-state sector as subjects of social work.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114043
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Causal Inference and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Assessing Whether There Was an Acceleration in MDG Development Indicators Following the MDG Declaration
Friedman, Howard Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Background: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of eight goals and corresponding indicators that were agreed to following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration in September 2000 by leaders of 189 countries. The goals state specific objectives for the world to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109667
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Polity qualities: how governance affects poverty
Moore, Mick; Leavy, Jennifer; Houtzager, Peter; White, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
For a large sample of 61 developing countries, over the period 1980-95, we calculate a measure of the efficiency with which national political-economic systems convert a given volume of material resources (GNP per capita) into human development (longevity, education and literacy) for their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787127
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Economic policy, does It help life expectancy? an african evidence of the role of economic policy on longevity.
Ojeaga, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper evaluates some factors that affect longevity in Africa, with the aim of offering an insight on how government economic policy and consumption spending affect the lives of people in developing countries. Government economic policy was found to be contributing in a negative manner to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107776
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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112282
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Entrepreneurship and its Link to Corruption: Assessment with the Most Recent World and Country-Group Data
Driouchi, Ahmed; Gamar, Alae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
mainly its relationship to corruption namely the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) be re-addressed. The objective of the … effect of corruption reduction on GEDI and thus the positive relationship between an intangible good that is entrepreneurship … and an intangible bad that is corruption. These results confirm that the recent available data are supportive of anti-corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183135
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Corruption and Infrastructure at the Country and Regional Level
Gillanders, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using … the measure of corruption in the macro data and the measures of transportation and electricity infrastructure. Countries … with more corruption tend to have worse infrastructure in the eyes of their firms. This link is shown to remain when one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259578