Bretton-Woods Institutions, China and the EU, followed a ‘laissez faire’ approach in the interest of stability and their …

towards democratization and economic prosperity. Western donors took Togo as model to test their approach of political … conditionality of aid, which had been emphasised as corner stone of the joint EU-Africa strategy. Recent empirical findings on the … linkage between democratization and economic performance in Western Africa are challenged because of lack of viable data. It …

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 …

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 …

by low inflation, robust growth and low level of bureaucratic corruption due to better governance. In contrast, the … economic performance during the democratic regimes has been observed to worsen with weak governance and high levels of … corruption, high inflation due partly to reliance on seigniorage to finance public spending, and lackluster growth. Using annual …

to governance. They however correlate with RICE in strikingly contrasting ways. A composite measure of the quality of … correlated with RICE. In other words, countries with governance institutions that are attractive to international investors tend …

A number of popular notions and outright myths on governance and corruption are addressed in this chapter. We … distinguish clearly between governance and anti-corruption, while probing the links between both notions. In so doing we challenge … underplaying the role of the private sector. We then challenge the notion that governance and corruption cannot be measured …

. Consequently, the paper recommends the adoption of e-governance(development as a therapy for a heterogenous and divisible nation …

Indeed, the recent emphasis on eco-political governance in Nigeria is unique in that it was initiated by external …

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 …