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The aim of the paper is to analyze how corruption contributes to the spread of shadow economy and damages viable … the instances of corruption on any given level (individual, organizational, governmental, or cross-country), the factors …, systems, channels and mechanisms and design more comprehensive fighting strategies against corruption than are offered today …
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Higher education corruption is an emerging sub-field of research that has yet to develop its terminological apparatus … sociology. Accordingly, most of the terminology of higher education corruption is not unique fundamentally but derived from … that may be formulated as higher education corruption. This Glossary presents terminology used in research and discussion …
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prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
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out in Barranquilla, Colombia, in order to investigate whether corruption and informality are complements or substitutes …. It was found that it is necessary to distinguish between bureaucratic and political corruption when examining the … relation with informality, as the results can be opposite. In Barranquilla, bureaucratic corruption and informality seem to be …
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With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …
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Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption’s predominantly negative effects have arisen to …’s aim to provide a reassessment and a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and its …
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why they are more concerned about corruption than other firms are—but they were no more likely to pay bribes during these …If corrupt bureaucrats target registered firms, then corruption may discourage registration. Using data from a survey … of 4,801 microenterprises in Zambia, this paper looks at whether corruption is a more or less serious problem for …
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This research exploits the event of immigration to establish that institutions have a persistent effect on culture. It … is argued that immigrants coming from corrupt countries, tend to overtrust the institutions at the host country. This … inflated trust of immigrants is documented as the Great Expectations effect. This result is interesting and intriguing for …
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in Djibouti by both the macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis. The review shows that institutional habits (corruption …. Finally, the 2007 survey on the money transfer activities (hawalas) shows that these institutions have a significant impact on …
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between fiscal illusion and the shadow economy for 104 countries over the period 1989–2009. We argue that both unobservable phenomena are closely linked to each other, as the creation of a fiscal illusion may be helpful if...
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