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applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …
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The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
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, focusing on India and Indonesia?two countries that have experienced increased education rights litigation in recent years. It …
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industrial growth in India. The expected annual sales growth rate of an enterprise is lower where labor regulation is greater … business growth seem also to depend on a fourth element, namely, corruption. Specifically, labor regulation affects the growth … only of enterprises for which corruption is not a factor in business decisions. By contrast, power shortages seem to be a …
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, improvement of public procurement competitiveness, and reduction of corruption. The paper finds that information and … relationship between e-procurement and bureaucratic corruption …
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A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …
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finance, exposure to corruption, and sales growth. Relying on a data set of more than 70,000 firms in 121 countries, the … financial constraints than unaudited firms. On the other hand, audited firms face a significantly higher level of corruption … considerations of the endogeneity of auditing and to alternative measures of corruption and financial constraints. The findings …
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This paper seeks to find empirical evidence of a link between tax simplification and corruption in tax administration … between simpler tax regimes and corruption in tax administration. Corruption in tax administration is calculated with data … series from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey Database. The focus is on business taxes. The study includes 104 countries …
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World Bank's Control of Corruption indicator, despite some important reservations and limitations, are the most valid …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 …
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Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government …
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