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I examine how economic institutions which exhibit a socio-cultural bias against women may reduce the wealth of a nation … crime against women by the UN, for conducting a meaningful empirical exercise. The objective of the exercise is to uncover … gender bias also lowers its per capita GDP …
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significance. In other words, crime imposes the costs of prosecution and punishment on the citizens and country, which influences …Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is …, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the …
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It has been argued that procedural formalism undermines economic efficiency by fostering rent-seeking and corruption. We challenge this view by arguing that a number of judicial procedures foster economic growth by increasing the predictability of court decisions, which leads to more...
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Over 10 years ago, Feld and Voigt (2003) introduced the first indicator for objectively meas-uring the actual independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely used, but also criticized. This paper pre-sents more...
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this paper investigates the potential bias arising when aggregate economy data instead of sectoral data is adopted in macro … economy made up of agricultural and manufacturing sectors we confirm substantial bias in the technology coefficients and thus …
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