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Studies on the causes of income differences between the rich and the poor have received an extensive attention in the inequality empirics. While ethnic diversity h asalso been identified as one of the fundamental causes of income inequality, the role of institutions as a mediating factor in the...
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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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This study checks the effect of foreign aid on terrorism and FDI, conditioned on domestic levels of corruption …
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rate, political stability and corruption shape the relationship between natural resources and tourism revenues. This study … world from 1996 to 2018. First, our results indicate that natural resource dependence negatively impacts tourism revenues …. Second, above certain thresholds, natural resources curse the tourism sector through the corruption of exchange rate. These …
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A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … 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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This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing …
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stability, low corruption, and voice and accountability are keys. Finally, critical masses required for these three key …
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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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FDI and various governance indicators (rule of law, control of corruption, regulatory quality, governance effectiveness … engender positive synergy with FDI on inclusive growth in SSA. Using data from the World Bank's World Governance Indicators and … the World Development Indicators for the period 1990- 2020, we employ several fixed effects, random effects, and the …
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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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