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Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries … either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian … of political institutions in mediating the corruption-growth relationship using panel data over one hundred countries for …
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of international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) on climate change with special reference to India's economy … resultant prosperity. We also emphasize that enforcing regulations is a complex task given corruption, informal markets, and the … inability of citizens to cooperate and form effective lobbies. Preliminary calculations using data from the World Bank show that …
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While the effects of corruption on bilateral trade have been relatively well explored, its effect on the composition of … trading partners has not been studied. In this paper, we argue that corruption in a country is likely to impose asymmetric … costs on its trading partners depending on their characteristics. As a result, as the level of corruption in a country …
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COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of healthcare equity and lower political corruption, because the health sector …
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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...
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of offshore entities as an indicator of corruption risk. We find that the number of new shell companies increases by 11 … the award of an exploration licence increases the risk of corruption. Consistent with rent-maximising behaviour, this … association is stronger when the price of oil increases. Our work informs the fight against corruption, proposing greater …
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relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
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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 … that strong rule of law institutions may ameliorate the possible adverse effects of political and economic crises on …
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gaps in jurisdiction and adapting their practices when law enforcement becomes more effective. They evolve from ship piracy …
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quality of governance in an unbalanced panel data set consisting of all countries in the world (217) using data from 1980 to …
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