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Corruption remains a major challenge to sustainable economic growth, good governance, peace, and stability in both … corruption on hunger. Using three types of corruption (executive, legislative, and judicial corruption dynamics) and a panel of … 45 African countries, this study contributes to the literature on the effects of corruption by examining, as a first …
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rate, political stability and corruption shape the relationship between natural resources and tourism revenues. This study …. Second, above certain thresholds, natural resources curse the tourism sector through the corruption of exchange rate. These … activities that generate corruption and the adoption of appropriate exchange rate regime is recommended but this requires further …
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. Moreover, social media indirectly curbs corruption through their effects on civil society participation. Reducing corruption in …Despite a growing literature on the determinants of corruption, existing studies are sparse on the channels through … which social media curbs corruption using panel data. Social media is captured by the percentages of the population and …
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'poverty multiplier theory' and propose a model for its application within an African context. The 'poverty multiplier theory … the unit currency placed in foreign bank accounts is redirected to the domestic economy in the form of external debt. This …
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stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate … corruption-control. On the other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels … corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature, we establish causal evidence of …
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This study checks the effect of foreign aid on terrorism and FDI, conditioned on domestic levels of corruption …
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This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing …
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corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are …
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fight against corruption in their quest to reduce the size of the informal economy. … informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …
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. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …
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