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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
corruption on economic growth of AFTZ member states. The study employed a panel data analysis for the period 2010-2016, using … Stata Statistical Software. The study findings for the bloc, indicated that corruption, trading across borders, getting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910879
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Regulatory discretion and the unofficial economy: A redux
Mazhar, Ummad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper replicates the Johnson et al.’s (1998) empirical analysis of the affects of regulatory discretion on the unofficial economy. The narrow replication uses the data set of the original study which comprises of 49 countries for the year 1997. The wide replication is performed in two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258235
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Regulation and corporate corruption: new evidence from the telecom sector
Berg, Sanford V; Jiang, Liangliang; Lin, Chen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business … (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; 2) competition and privatization reduces … cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that 1) strong regulatory substance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277849
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Corruption as a response to regulation
Noel D., Johnson; William, Ruger; Jason, Sorens; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
corruption’s harmful effects on growth are smaller when regulation is greater. …Previous research has found a negative effect of corruption on growth in the United States. However, some theory … suggests corruption might have a positive impact in places with dysfunctional political institutions. This paper investigates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650661
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Co-operative and competitive enforced self regulation: the role of governments, private actors and banks in corporate responsibility
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
“helping hand” view of government is advanced as having a fundamental role in the regulation and supervision of banks …. Furthermore, governments have a vital role to play in corporate responsibility and regulation given the fact that banks are costly … Regulation model, the paper attempts to highlight the role played by government in the direct monitoring of firms. In proposing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498483
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The Nigerian Wars, Regional Crises and Ethnic Disturbances: Policy Responses and Democratic Implications
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835516
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Corruption: Measuring the Unmeasurable
Zaman, Asad; Rahim, Faizur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
, it does not follow that it is universally useful. We argue that attempts to measure corruption can be counterproductive … explanation of why extremely distorted and biased measures of corruption continue to be used is also offered. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835523
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Evolutia arieratelor in Romania
Ecobici, Nicolae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
more injury, national economy came to be dominated with corruption, lack of restructuring, masked or unmasked subventions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835808
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Power Sector Reform: Some Lessons for Kerala
Pillai N., Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Electric power is so vital to both our economic and personal wellbeing that the erstwhile state policy in most of the developing countries, including India, had vested the power industry in the hands of the state as a promotional agency for subsidized supply. However, with the onset of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835838
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“Feed from the Service”: Corruption and Coercion in the State—University Relations in Central Eurasia
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Education in Central Eurasia has become one of the industries, most affected by corruption. Corruption in academia … addressed in few scholarly works. This paper considers corruption in higher education as a product of interrelations between the … government and academia. A substantial block of literature considers excessive corruption as an indicator of a weak state. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836063