We investigate whether mining affects local-level corruption in Africa. Several cross-country analyses report that … natural resource production and wealth have adverse effects on political institutions, for instance by increasing corruption …

This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity … be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative … effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it …

In this paper, we argue that the answer to the question of whether the impact of corruption on development is … corruption, we are able to point out that institutions play important role in insulating citizens against the devastation caused … by corruption. Overall, through this comparison, we are able to signal that both incidental and systematic corruption …

This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity … be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative … effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it …

. 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, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …