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The dynamic relationship between crime and economic growth in Nigeria
Adenuga Fabian Adekoya; Nor Azam Abdul Razak - In: International journal of management and economics 53 (2017) 1, pp. 47-64
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 … link between crime and growth based on the theory of rational choice and empirical data. Exogenous and endogenous growth …
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The growth-employment-poverty Nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2016
In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth was not all that mattered; external factors were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540612
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2015
In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth was not all that mattered; external factors were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384085
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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey
Kimhi, Ayal - 2004
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality. Country-specific studies that focused on labor market inequality have shown that, with a few exceptions, wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261263
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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on dissecting globalization, July 2004
Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 2004
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality. Country-specific studies that focused on labor market inequality have shown that, with a few exceptions, wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450868
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Natural resources: Curse or blessing?
van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2010
and bad growth prospects, and that these adverse effects are more severe in volatile countries with bad institutions and … a resource boom reinforces rent grabbing and civil conflict especially if institutions are bad, induces corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270490
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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2000
aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297689
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Development and validation of scientific indicators of the relationship between criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2000
aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300900
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The interiorization of Brazilian violence, policing, and economic growth
Steeves, Geoffrey M.; Petterini, Francis Carlo; Moura, … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 16 (2015) 3, pp. 359-375
Brazilian homicide rates are among the highest in the world, inclusive of actual war zones. However, the character of Brazil's violence is changing. Recent analyses highlight a trend of dispersion of violence such that homicide rates in urban areas, traditionally the most violent places, have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865582
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Crime and Sustainable Economic Growth in Nigeria : Institutional Challenges and Way Forward
Metu, Amaka - 2018
paper, therefore examined how crime is a deterrence to sustainable economic growth in Nigeria from 2007 to 2015 using … descriptive statistics such as graphs and tables. The paper also analysed the challenges to effective crime prevention and control … Indicators (WDI). Number of people serving prison terms was used to proxy crime rate and the findings showed that there has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913485