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This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …
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This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …
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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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This paper investigates the relationship between corruption and development. By a study of the determinants of the … phenomenon as well as its implications on growth, this paper address the corruption challenge faced by governments and … not entirely clear, it is however without debate to say that development is necessarily linked with anti-corruption …
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This paper analyzes the existing relationship between ethnic fractionalization, corruption and the growth rate of a … country. We provide a simple theoretical model. We show that a nonlinear relationship between fractionalization and corruption … exists: corruption is high in homogeneous or very fragmented countries, but low where fractionalization is intermediate. In …
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We are increasingly cognizant of the limits to large cross-country empirical studies in trying to understand in-depth a particular country reality, in ways useful for advice. At the same time, merely relying on a single country account at a particular point in time ignores the historical and...
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How does corruption in Central and Eastern Europe hurt economic growth? The paper explains theoretical framework that … is applied to the problem of corruption and reveals its application difficulties. Corruption may be understood as the … corrupt behaviour. Within comparison of both agency theory and rent-seeking we argue that corruption in general is the problem …
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In this paper, we argue that the answer to the question of whether the impact of corruption on development is … corruption, we are able to point out that institutions play important role in insulating citizens against the devastation caused … by corruption. Overall, through this comparison, we are able to signal that both incidental and systematic corruption …
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This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption, political instability and economic growth. We … of the Arab Spring, as an exogenous shock, to measure the short-term effects of political shocks on corruption levels …
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