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Fighting corruption in Africa : do existing corruption-control levels matter?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

Purpose - Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across African countries? Why are some … countries more effective at battling corruption than others? To assess these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption …-control throughout the conditional distribution of the fight against corruption using panel data from 46 African countries for the period …

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Towards the quest to reduce income inequality in Africa : is there a synergy between tourism development and governance?

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Dossou, Toyo A. M.; Akadiri, Seyi - 2021

This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...

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Perception vs. experience : explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata

Gutmann, Jerg; Padovano, Fabio; Voigt, Stefan - 2019

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

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Inequality and Institutions

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2005

This Paper presents theory and evidence on the relationship between inequality and institutional quality. We exhibit a model in which the two dynamically reinforce each other and set to test this relationship with a broad array of institutional measures. We establish the double causality between...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Governance Quality in Russia

Kuzmina, Olga - 2014

This paper studies the effect of poor governance quality on foreign direct investment in Russia. Using a survey of businesses across forty administrative districts, we find that higher frequency of using illegal payments and higher pressure from regulatory agencies, enforcement authorities, and...

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Foreign Aid, Institutional Quality, and Growth

Young, Andrew T. - 2014

Using a panel of up to 116 countries from 1970-2010 we estimate the effects of foreign aid flows on a variety of measures of institutional quality. We find that aid flows are associated with the deterioration of both political and economic institutions. Regarding the latter, aid flows are...

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Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption in the Baltic and CIS Countries : The Role of the IMF

Wolf, Thomas A.; Gürgen, Emine - 2021

This paper examines the indirect role the IMF plays in combating corruption in the Baltic and CIS countries by … analysis draws on examples of actual experience with corruption and outlines some of the structural measures under IMF …-supported arrangements, which, if successfully implemented, can be expected to help gradually alleviate corruption. It also summarizes IMF …

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