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This paper assesses the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa using hitherto unexplored variables in the literature. The previously missing dimension of nation building is integrated and the hypothesis of state fragility being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de...
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This study had for objective to measure the link which exists between the alcohol and the corruption, or more exactly … the relation between the drinker and the corruption. In the term of this study, it seems clearly that the relation is … corruption. If this relation is clear, it requires nevertheless a lot of caution as far as we do not supply an argument so robust. …
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In recent years the topic of corruption has attracted a great deal of attention. However, there is still a lack of … substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of corruption. Despite an increasing interest of economists in the … determinants of corruption, the factor of marriage has been widely neglected in the literature. The results suggest a positive but …
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With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …
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With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693307
display a negative link with bureaucratic development, lack of corruption, credibility of governments and others. Results are …
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In this study, we try to discover the variables susceptible to affect the peace. To arrive there, we made resort to the analysis in cross-sectional. We find that the institutional variables are auspicious to the peace, especially the political stability. The macroeconomic variables are, on the...
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impacts on per capita wealth coming from geographical variables or natural resource rents. Finally, we discuss background …
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Using cross-sectional analysis with new data on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship, we test the hypothesis of de Soto (1994, 2005) that the right of property is required for hatching entrepreneurship. Given our econometric estimates and our sensitivity tests, the right to property is...
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We analyze the effect of the Statistical Capacity on government effectiveness/efficiency, using a cross-sectional and panel data for a sample of 48 countries African for a period of 2003-2008.The results show that Statistical Capacity positively affects government effectiveness/efficiency. The...
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