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Purpose – Two major earthquakes which struck Northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving … construction and zoning code violations. The government’s relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great … different group of parties were responsible for the construction of the shoddy buildings, and for the corruption and …
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address corruption. Turkey is also a member of the Council of Europe and subject to the GRECO peer‐review process on … corruption. Various quantitative and quantitative surveys rank Turkey as having a continuing corruption problem, while the 2006 … address corruption. Findings – Turkey's political and administrative development may require the EU to understand that …
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This paper considers the distributional dynamics of a well‐known corruption index. Specifically, we are interested in … evaluating whether corruption is best characterized as multimodal (i.e. pointing to clusters of countries with persistently … different levels of corruption) and whether there have been significant changes (i.e. convergence or divergence) in the …
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the economic growth of the Republic of Turkey is examined. Certain econometric methods as Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF … Turkey in the long-run. …
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Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the empirical literature of the macroeconomic effect of trade facilitation reforms by examining the impact of the latter on tax revenue in both developed and developing countries. The relevance of the topic lies on the fact that at the Bali...
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One of the most direct methods of exposing corruption in corporate or public institutions is whistleblowing. Quite a … structural inertia in dealing with corruption cases. In this article, the author argues that Nigeria can benefit from the …
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While abundant research has demonstrated that E-government reduces corruption and improves bureaucratic productivity …, few studies have isolated the distinct effects of different types of E-government programs on rates of corruption and … developmental obstacles of corruption and bribery. Nations pursuing development would best be served, therefore, by adopting the …
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development progress of a country. But in Bangladesh it is an irony of fate that in the judiciary there is too much corruption … types of corruption from among the judicial officers, lawyers and clients are clearly seen in Court premises. To prevent …
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limitation of an earlier work which claims cultural norms to be the significant determinant of corruption. We show that after … infrastructure in a country, the effect of culture on corruption becomes insignificant. However, the Country Corruption index and the … Government Effectiveness index are strongly correlated which makes it difficult to identify the causal determinant of corruption …
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