Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … corruption (corruption-control) effects. Thus the intuition is assessing how globalization is instrumental in the fight against … corruption through human development (economic and social dimensions) and government quality (political dimension). Findings …

Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight … against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in … the corruption battle? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption-control throughout the …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity … account for government quality dynamics of corruption-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A …

finance. It is a natural extension of "Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç …) hypotheses that English common-law countries tend to have better developed financial intermediaries than French civil-law …

This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate …-levels, legal-origins, religious-dominations and press-freedom to account for government quality dynamics, of corruption …-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political-stability, regulation quality and the rule of law. Findings show …

Purpose - This paper assesses the determinants of corruption-control with freedom dynamics (economic, political, press … characteristic, the following findings have been established. (1) While political freedom increases corruption-control (CC) in a … bottom quantile of English common law countries, there is no such evidence in their French civil law counterparts. (2 …

The debate by Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) on 'the effect of foreign aid on corruption …' in its current state has the shortcoming of modeling corruption as a direct effect of development assistance. This note … extends the debate by assessing the channels of foreign aid to corruption in 53 African countries for the period 1996 …

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 …

The Okada & Samreth(2012, EL) finding that aid deters corruption could have an important influence on policy and … updated data(1996-2010) from 52 African countries we provide robust evidence of a positive aid-corruption nexus. Development … assistance fuels(mitigates) corruption(the control of corruption) in the African continent. As a policy implication, the Okada …

Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing countries? Why are some countries … more effective at battling corruption than others? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption …-control throughout the conditional distribution of the fight against corruption using panel data from 46 African countries for the period …