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Corruption, economic growth and the informal sector : empirical evidence from developing countries
Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Njoya, Loudi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
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/10012817792
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Corruption, Economic Growth and the Informal Sector : Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries
Ibrahim, Ngouhouo; Njoya, Loudi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
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
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Evaluating the use of personal connections to bypass formal procedures : a study of vriski in Republic of Macedonia
Williams, Colin C.; Bezeredi, Slavko - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 8 (2017) 2, pp. 169-182
The soliciting of personal favours for and from others in order to circumvent formal procedures is a common practice across the world, variously known as guanxi, wasta, blat, and jeitinho. Until now, however, there have been no known empirical studies of this practice in South-East Europe. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780722
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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa : evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR
Njoya, Loudi; Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022
. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817802
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Controlling informalisation : punitive versus strategic measures
Mitra, Siddhartha - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 48 (2005) 1, pp. 83-99
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003149759
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Informal Employment in Developed and Developing Economies : Perspectives and Policy Responses
Williams, Colin - 2015
The aim of this introductory article is to provide a critical overview of how informality has been defined and measured, together with selected findings on its extent and character, and a summary of competing views regarding its role in contemporary economies and how it can be tackled. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009819
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Tackling Informal Employment in Developing and Transition Economies : A Critical Evaluation of the Neo-Liberal Approach
Williams, Colin - 2017
sector corruption and too much state interference in the free market and that the consequent solution is to reduce taxes …, public sector corruption and the regulatory burden via minimal state intervention. Comparing International Labour …, corruption and state intervention across 41 developing and transition economies, little support is found for the neo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967082
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Tackling Enterprises Operating in the Informal Sector in Developing and Transition Economies : A Critical Evaluation of the Neo-Liberal Policy Approach
Williams, Colin - 2015
informal sector due to high taxes, public sector corruption and too much state interference in the free market and that the … remedy is therefore to reduce taxes, public sector corruption and the regulatory burden via minimal state intervention. To … workforce in informal sector enterprises are associated with cross-national variations in the level of tax rates, corruption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130746
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Does Informal Sector Size Impede Economy Growth in Developing Countries?
Njoya, Loudi; Ibrahim, Ngouhouo; Ewane, Etah - 2022
This paper empirically analyses the impact of the informal sector on long-term growth in developing countries. Using a panel of 112 countries from the icrg and Medina and Schneider (2018) over the period 1991 to 2015, a U-shaped relationship between the size of the informal sector and the growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013299277
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Firm-level determinants of business tax evasion in emerging economies : the case of Argentina
Pedroni, Florencia Verónica; Briozzo, Anahí; Pesce, … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 34 (2022), pp. 83-117
determinants such as: corruption, regulation and bureaucracy, quality of public and government services, detection probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013485826