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How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa? : an empirical analysis

Jahnke, Björn - 2015

industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …

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Re-Theorizing the Informal Economy in Western Nations : Some Lessons From Rural England

Williams, Colin - 2015

For much of the 20th century, the informal economy in advanced western nations was depicted as a leftover from an earlier mode of production and disappearing from view. In recent decades, however, with the recognition that it persists and is even growing, it has been variously re-theorized as...

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The macroeconomic impact of recent political conflicts in Africa : generalized synthetic counterfactual evidence

Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021

This paper measures the macroeconomic impact of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence on the modulation of the impact. We find that political crisis, protests and...

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Explaining the Prevalence of the Informal Economy in the Baltics : An Institutional Asymmetry Perspective

Williams, Colin - 2017

The aim of this paper is to map the spatial variations in the size of the shadow economy within Brussels. Reporting data provided by the National Bank of Belgium on the deposit of high denomination banknotes across bank branches in the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, the...

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Institutional Complementarity, Economic Performance, and Governance in the Post-Communist World

Markus, Stanislav; Mendelski, Martin - 2018

Our article presents an index of institutional complementarity for 27 postcommunist economies, and evaluates a key claim of the Varieties of Capitalism paradigm. The empirical novelty of the index lies in its integration of informal institutions as well as its combination of macro-level and...

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Governance for Inclusive Growth

Ivanyna, Maksym; Salerno, Andrea - 2022

discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …

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Is informality a barrier to economic growth in Uganda? Empirical analysis

Esaku, Stephen - 2021

We apply autoregressive distributed lag modeling approach to investigate the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and informality in Uganda. We use annual time series data, covering the period from 1991 to 2017. We find evidence of short- and long-run relationship between...

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Declining trust in growing China : a dilemma between growth and socio-economic damage

Dai, Shuanping; Elsner, Wolfram - 2015

Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand and analyze this social phenomenon from a social interaction perspective. Based on a repeated prisoners ́dilemma game on networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust...

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Corruption, seigniorage and growth: theory and evidence

Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2008

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

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Enrichment with growth

Klein, Michael - 2011

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