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tradition improves CC. Originality/value – We complement the literature on the fight against corruption in Africa by employing …Purpose – This paper assesses the determinants of corruption-control with freedom dynamics (economic, political, press … characteristic, the following findings have been established. (1) While political freedom increases corruption-control (CC) in a …
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across the best and worst corruption-fighting countries especially with respect to democracy, population growth and economic …Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing countries? Why are some countries … more effective at battling corruption than others? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption …
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This study was motivated by the quest to investigate how the interaction between corruption and institutional quality … affects Nigeria's economic performance by testing the validity of the "sand the wheels" and "grease the wheels" corruption … Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to determine the interactive effects of corruption and institutional quality on …
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corruption and decrease the large expenses associated with today's democratic election campaigns. Random mechanisms can be …
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The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of policy options in financial dynamics (of money, credit, efficiency and size) on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of African countries in the past decade.Design/Methodology/Approach –...
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The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596867
, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …
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, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983118