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This research study summarises the effects of corruption in Brazil and its effects on the economic growth of the … economy and therefore the economic growth of a country: the human capita, GDP per capita and the corruption; it is possible to … theoretical analysis of how corruption may affect an economy of a country, and using them alongside with the data from the …
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industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …
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With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …
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This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …
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The activity of lobbying in an economy is one which has numerous societal costs and benefits. The most significant effect is how far from the optimum productivity curve does it move an economy. Is the net effect a negative or positive gain in social welfare measured by standard of living and...
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This paper investigates a possible impact of education corruption on economic growth in Russia. It argues that high … levels of education corruption may harm total factor productivity in the long run, primarily through lowering the level of … reduce education corruption in the short run, but can eventually lead to implementation of higher ethical standards in the …
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Corruption is often a source of contentious debate, covering different areas of knowledge, such as philosophy and … sociology. In this paper we assess the effects of corruption on economic activity and highlight the relevance of the size of the … 2019. We find an adverse effect of corruption on the level and growth of GDP per capita, but that large governments benefit …
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This paper analyzes the existing relationship between ethnic fractionalization, corruption and the growth rate of a … country. We provide a simple theoretical model. We show that a nonlinear relationship between fractionalization and corruption … exists: corruption is high in homogeneous or very fragmented countries, but low where fractionalization is intermediate. In …
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Many studies have examined corruption’s effect upon economic growth. This study takes a different approach and … efforts, we count the number of articles from official newspapers that discuss corruption or anticorruption policies. These … these papers only appear with official approval. Therefore, the frequency of corruption and anticorruption articles within …
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With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141965