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Corruption, economic growth and the informal sector : empirical evidence from developing countries
Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Njoya, Loudi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817792
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Corruption, Economic Growth and the Informal Sector : Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries
Ibrahim, Ngouhouo; Njoya, Loudi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295063
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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa : evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR
Njoya, Loudi; Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022
. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817802
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Does Informal Sector Size Impede Economy Growth in Developing Countries?
Njoya, Loudi; Ibrahim, Ngouhouo; Ewane, Etah - 2022
This paper empirically analyses the impact of the informal sector on long-term growth in developing countries. Using a panel of 112 countries from the icrg and Medina and Schneider (2018) over the period 1991 to 2015, a U-shaped relationship between the size of the informal sector and the growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013299277
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010312
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967075
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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa : evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR
Njoya, Loudi; Ibrahim, Ngouhouo; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022
. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296573
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Youth Labour Markets in Developing and Developed Countries : the Role of the Sectoral Composition of Production
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2019
In this paper we explore the role of the sectoral composition of gross domestic product (GDP) in explaining the behaviour of youth labour markets. We provide a comparison of the behaviour of youth unemployment rates, employment-population rates, and labour force participation rates between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870223
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Economic growth and poverty : does formalisation of informal enterprises matter?
Ishengoma, Esther; Kappel, Robert - 2006
The informal sector (IS) plays a significant role in developing countries viz. the provision of employment, income and supplying ignored markets. However, working and employment conditions within the sector are still poor. Its expansion and changing structures have thus drawn the attention of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008905233
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Economic Growth and Poverty : Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?
Kappel, Robert T.; Ishengoma, Esther K. - 2012
The informal sector (IS) plays a significant role in developing countries viz. the provision of employment, income and supplying ignored markets. However, working and employment conditions within the sector are still poor. Its expansion and changing structures have thus drawn the attention of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057528