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classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data …/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more …
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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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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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classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data …/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023704
Education as a tool in the fight against corruption has been subject to much debate in academic and policy making … corruption. Second, there is evidence of an incremental effect in the transition from secondary to tertiary education. Third …, lifelong learning defined as knowledge acquired during primary, secondary and tertiary education negatively affects corruption …
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Purpose – In this paper, we introduce firm heterogeneity in the context of a model of non-compliance with minimum wage legislation.Design/methodology/approach – Theoretical modeling under government compliance policy and wages & employment under non compliance. Findings – The introduction...
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This paper examines two dimensions of the software piracy-development nexus to complement existing formal literature. It empirically assesses the incidence of piracy on the Human Development Index (HDI) and its constituents and then the instrumentality of Intellectual Property Right (IPR)...
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Purpose – Education as a weapon in the fight against conflict and violence remains widely debated in policy and academic circles. Against the background of growing political instability in Africa and the central role of the knowledge economy in 21st century development, this paper provides...
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In this paper, we introduce firm heterogeneity in the context of a model of non-compliance with minimum wage legislation. The introduction of heterogeneity in the ease with which firms can be monitored for non compliance allows us to show that non-compliance will persist in sectors which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111817
The study examines the effect of software piracy on inclusive human development in 11 African countries for which software piracy data is available for the period 2000-2010. The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable panel Fixed Effects (FE) and Tobit models in order to control for...
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