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How Business Community Institutions Can Help Fight Corruption

Dixit, Avinash - 2017

This paper considers the possibility of collective action by the business community to counter corruption in the award … probability of winning the license or contract through bribery. An improvement in the government's formal anti-corruption …

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Corporate Governance and Public Corruption

Cusolito, Ana P. - 2017

Corporate governance in the private sector and corruption are important for economic development and private sector … development. This paper investigates how corporate governance in private-sector media companies can affect public corruption. The … concentration affects corruption: an owner effect, which discourages corruption and a competition-for-control effect that enhances …

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Can We Measure the Power of the Grabbing Hand? : A Comparative Analysis of Different Indicators of Corruption

Hamilton, Alexander James - 2018

Sustainable Development Goal 16 is explicitly committed to measuring aspects of corruption over time, and the … various objective and subjective indicators of corruption, using the standard criteria of validity and reliability to identify … paper finds that the aggregate survey-based indicators of corruption, especially the Corruption Perceptions Index and the …

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Making the Most of Demographic Change in Southern Africa

Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017

The countries of the Southern African Customs Union have relatively diverse demographic and economic starting points. These economies have the potential to realize demographic dividends and experience an acceleration in their income per capita growth and poverty reduction progress through...

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Poverty and Shared Prosperity Implications of Deep Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa

Balistreri, Edward J. - 2017

Evidence indicates that trade costs are a much more substantial barrier to trade than tariffs are, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into: (i) trade facilitation, (ii) non-tariff barriers, and (iii) the costs of business services. The paper assesses the poverty...

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Mines, Migration and Hiv/Aids in Southern Africa

Corno, Lucia - 2017

Swaziland and Lesotho have the highest HIV prevalence in the world. They also share another distinct feature: during the last century, they sent a large numbers of migrant workers to South African mines. This paper examines whether participation in mining in a bordering country affects HIV...

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Microeconomic Consequences and Macroeconomic Causes of Foreign Direct Investment in Southern African Economies

Lederman, Daniel - 2017

The causes and consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries remains a subject of debate among researchers and policymakers alike. The authors use international data and a new micro-data set of firms in thirteen Southern African Developing Countries (SADCs) to...

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International Benchmarking of Infrastructure Performance in the Southern African Customs Union Countries

Bogetic, Zeljko - 2016

The paper provides a first, systematic benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) in four major sectors-electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology,...

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Does Greater Regulatory Burden Lead to More Corruption? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries

Amin, Mohammad - 2020

simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the … corruption indices used are based on experts' opinions, which may suffer from perception bias. The present paper attempts to … analysis finds a large, positive effect of regulatory burden on corruption. For the baseline results, the bribery rate is …

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Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets : Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries

Knack, Stephen - 2017

competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank …

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