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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa : evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR
Njoya, Loudi; Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022
This paper is interested in explaining the causes of the simultaneous evolution between economic growth and informality. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817802
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Corruption and access to socio-economic services in Africa
Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021
Corruption is one of the world's most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub-national level. Access to education and other socio-economic services is of utmost importance for all humans. It is still not exclusively based on merit, but often rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426257
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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa : evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR
Njoya, Loudi; Ibrahim, Ngouhouo; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022
This paper is interested in explaining the causes of the simultaneous evolution between economic growth and informality. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296573
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Power outages and economic growth in Africa
Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - In: Energy Economics 38 (2013) C, pp. 19-23
This paper estimates the total effect of power outages on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1995–2007. We pay close attention both to potential errors of measurement of African economic growth and to the endogeneity of outages. As suggested by Henderson et al. (American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010868760
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Expenditure Incidence in Africa : Microeconomic Evidence
Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2004
In this paper, we examine the progressivity of social sector expenditures in eight sub-Saharan African countries. We employ dominance tests, complemented by extended Gini/concentration coefficients, to determine whether health and education expenditures redistribute resources to the poor. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074100
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Exploiting the poor : bureaucratic corruption and poverty in Africa
Justesen, Mogens K.; Bjørnskov, Christian - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 58 (2014), pp. 106-115
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The impacts of corruption on firm performance : some lessons from 40 African countries
Williams, Colin C.; Kedir, Abbi Mamo - In: Journal of developmental entrepreneurship : JDE ; a … 21 (2016) 4, pp. 1-18
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Do smaller businesses pay more bribes? : firm size, informal payments and mitigating strategies in Africa
Acheampong, George; Rand, John - In: Africa journal of management 9 (2023) 2, pp. 134-155
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Bribing to escape poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba - 2022
This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit … regression. The results reveal that while poverty has a positive effect on the spread of bribery, inflation can mitigate the … words, the attendant results indicate that the impact of poverty on bribery becomes negative when inflation increases. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549377
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Reciprocity and statehood in Africa : from clientelism to cleptocracy
Paul, Axel T. - In: International review of economics : journal of civil economy 55 (2008) 1/2, pp. 209-227
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