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arise when monitoring corruption is difficult relative to monitoring the provision of public services, and politically …-important groups of citizens do not bear the full cost of corruption. The existence of such systems can distort the effective incidence … of the tax burden, reduce the incentives of government to fight corruption, and legitimize bribe-taking …
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This review attempts to identify treatments of corruption that draw upon characteristics of underdevelopment either as … causes or as consequences. It focuses on three aspects of corruption in developing economies: red tape, rent-seeking, and the … the structure of corruption markets …
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We argue that several easily identifiable structural features constitute the key ingredients of effective state bureaucracies and should help to predict ratings of bureaucratic performance: competitive salaries, internal promotion and career stability, and meritocratic recruitment. We collect a...
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Although corruption has attracted researchers' attention for more than 30 years, it remains one of the most significant … political challenges all countries face. Even though corruption measures have improved, they lack reliability and clarity. Two … aspects of corruption are examined in this paper: a) its measurement and b) its effects on the economic performance of 83 …
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This paper empirically examines the impact of corruption on FDI in European Union countries, including candidate …, we find that corruption has a negative impact on FDI. -- FDI ; Corruption ; Efficient Grease Hypothesis ; OLS …
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Corruption, particularly political or quot;grandquot; corruption, distorts the entire decision-making process connected … presented shows that higher corruption is associated with (i) higher public investment; (ii) lower government revenues; (iii … that corruption increases public investment while reducing its productivity. These are five channels through which …
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informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …
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This paper investigates the relationship between corruption and development. By a study of the determinants of the … phenomenon as well as its implications on growth, this paper address the corruption challenge faced by governments and … not entirely clear, it is however without debate to say that development is necessarily linked with anti-corruption …
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informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295063