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We examine the impact of foreign corruption regulation on economic development in highcorruption-risk areas. We find … activity increases by 37%. Overall, our findings suggest that anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is …
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A Value Added Tax (VAT) is seen as critical in providing the tax revenue base for governments, especially developing nations. However, prior research about VAT compliance costs has largely occurred in developed nations and has generally excluded psychological and corruption costs. This article...
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number of important issues that have been observed and tested during the initial measurements in World Bank client countries …
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This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … culture, while lending credence to the idea that common ancestry generates persistence and plays a central role in economic …
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The article analyzes the relationship between government policies and social capital development. Policies that promote capital flows and domestic capital development, human development, and gross domestic capital formation positively influence social capital, while those that contribute to...
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institutions; focus on competition; and greater efficiency in service delivery through incentive-based regulation. The difficulty … that despite of the rapid spread of regulatory agencies across the world, the UK regulatory model has been only partially …
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