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Beyond electoral democracy: Foreign aid and the challenge of deepening democracy in Benin
Gazibo, Mamoudou - 2012
. Moreover, when it comes to more substantial aspects of democracy, such as enhancing accountability and fighting corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319948
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Law enforcement and illegal markets: Evidence from the regulation of junkyards in Brazil
Mancha, André - 2022
I describe how monitoring and harsher law enforcement reduce the expected economic benefits of crime. I investigate the effect of shifts in legal authorities' surveillance by focusing on junkyards, firms often associated with illegal markets and auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322616
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Intra-household efficiency: An experimental study from Ethiopia
Kebede, Bereket; Tarazona, Marcela; Munro, Alistair; … - 2013
An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial endowments of spouses improves efficiency only in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319842
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The political economy of food price: The case of Ethiopia
Admassie, Assefa - 2013
Food prices increased significantly in 2007 - 08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319942
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Deterrence, peer effect, and legitimacy in anti-corruption policy-making: An experimental analysis
Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert; Miettinen, Topi - 2016
Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653949
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How does petty corruption affect tax morale in sub-Saharan Africa? An empirical analysis
Jahnke, Björn - 2017
analyse how petty corruption erodes tax morale. A mediation analysis shows that petty corruption directly reduces tax morale … severe in countries and regions where fewer people are affected by petty corruption and becomes insignificant if extortion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654002
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Extractive industries: addressing transparency, corruption, and theft
Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024
governance that sometimes leads to resources being used for private rather than public benefit. It discusses the corruption that …, not least in improving the information base. Although corruption and theft may never be fully eliminated, they can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548566
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Global oil theft: Impact and policy responses
Romsom, Etienne - 2022
This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5-7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petroleum fuels. However, the impact of oil theft is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204770
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Countering global oil theft: Responses and solutions
Romsom, Etienne - 2022
This second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource. Oil theft equates to 5-7 per cent of the global market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204789
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Corruption and crisis: Do institutions matter?
Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2022
about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political … and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the long-term effects of past crises on corruption. We hypothesize … corruption. We test our hypotheses using panel data for over 100 countries during the years 1800- 2020. The results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204791