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Bologna Pavlik, Jamie; Grier, Robin M.; Grier, Kevin B. - 2021

Corruption is often cited as a fundamental obstacle to economic development, making anticorruption initiatives an … important policy objective. However, there is little convincing empiricalevidence concerning the benefits of anti-corruption … reform. We fill this gap by identifying a set ofcountries that experienced a sustained increase in corruption control and …

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How Much Should We Trust the Dictator's GDP Growth Estimates?

Martinez, Luis R. - 2019

a large set of country characteristics, including economic structure, urbanization, corruption, state capacity or levels …

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How Much Should We Trust the Dictator's GDP Growth Estimates?

Martinez, Luis R. - 2021

I study the overstatement of GDP growth in autocratic regimes by comparing the self-reported GDP figures to the night time lights (NTL) recorded by satellites from outer space. I show that the NTL elasticity of GDP is systematically larger in more authoritarian regimes. This autocracy gradient...

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The Role of GDP Growth in the ESG Approach at World Level

Leogrande, Angelo; Costantiello, Alberto - 2023

We analyze the question of GDP Growth-GDPG rate in the context of Environmental, Social and Governance-ESG framework. We use World Bank data for 193 countries in the period 2011-2020 using different econometric techniques i.e., Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Panel Data with Random Effects,...

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Causal interaction between FDI, corruption and environmental quality in the MENA region

Bardi, Wajdi; Hfaiedh, Mohamed Ali - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 1/14, pp. 1-12

The present work analyzes the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and corruption on the quality of the … environment in the MENA region. Indeed, the magnitude of corruption and the quality of institutions are often cited as the main … recommend greater awareness of the harmful effects of corruption among political and economic actors. …

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Political Entrenchment and GDP Misreporting

Chan, Ho Fai - 2019

By examining discrepancies between officially reported GDP growth figures and the actual economic growth implied by satellite-based night time light (NTL) density, we investigate whether democracies manipulate officially reported GDP figures, and if so, whether such manipulation pays political...

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