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I investigate the relation between corruption and the composition of state government spending in the United States …. The analysis reveals that the United States is not immune to the adverse effects of corruption documented in cross …-country studies. Corruption lowers the share of state government spending devoted to higher education and raises the share of spending …
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This paper examines the relation between political corruption and the composition of public spending. A rent …-seeking model is used to describe political rent creation through the composition of public spending. Political corruption is … categories characterized by high-technology goods supplied by non-competitive industries varies positively with the Corruption …
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show why corruption is a problem of the state rather than the market. …
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. This ability to extract rents is itself posited as a function of the degree of corruption in a country's government. Thus …, it is the high degree of corruption in developing country governments that contributes to the dual nature of their … industrial structure. The model predicts that the higher the degree of corruption, the fewer (and larger) are the formal firms …
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water, corruption and rent-seeking. These failures result in wastage of this scarce resource. We propose to study the public …
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stable norms of behaviour. Domination of barter exchange, arrears, corruption and black market activities are examples of …
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Any legislative framework is likely to generate different institutions or norms of behavior which the legislator occasionally could have never foreseen. I suggested a general pattern, on which inefficient, if stable, norms or institutions called institutional traps would form.
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This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies covering its two main dimensions namely Risk reducing technologies and Anti Rent seeking technologies and in turn covers several social, institutional, political and economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and...
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