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This paper explores the flow of illicit narcotics transiting West Africa. It is divided into four sections, providing an overview of the nature and scope of the illicit narcotic economy, the networks and actors involved and its development impacts, including its resulting illicit financial...
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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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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407942
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/10011409094
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/10011410031
Recent firm-level surveys suggest that petty corruption is a serious problem for African firms, costing the average … bribes in monetary terms and firms that report them as a percent of sales, and the sensitivity of the corruption question … bribes when they report them in percentage terms. If this is the case, petty corruption might be far less costly than the raw …
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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/10013032567
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/10011266296