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focuses on the main corporate governance attributes of Egypt. The paper concludes with an extensive bibliography …
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This study examines the relationship between economic liberalization and the size of the shadow economy in Egypt. We … use annual data from 1976 to 2013 and show that economic liberalization policies in Egypt have a statistically significant … economic liberalization can reduce the extension of the shadow economy in Egypt. Therefore, we suggest conditioning …
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sector therefore acts as an additional tax for the formal private firms. Using data on workers' flows from Egypt, we show …
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acts as an additional tax imposed on private firms. Using workers flows data from Egypt, we show that labor markets …
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This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...
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Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …
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legitimacy: knowledge of taxpayers' rights and perceived corruption in the tax administration. The results indicate not only that … is related to increased tax knowledge and lower perceptions of corruption. These findings imply that services which …
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ten year average rainfall variations as instrument for household income in rural Bangladesh, we find that corruption is … results imply that `free schooling' is free only for the rich, and corruption makes the playing field skewed against the poor …
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classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data …/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more …
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It has often been argued that bribery creates auction-like conditions and, hence, improves allocative efficiency of bureaucratic decisions. This article shows that these auction-like conditions are not likely to exist because officials will restrict access to bribery in order to reduce the risks...
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