(an) tool(impediment) in(to) the fight against corruption in Low(Middle) income countries. (2) Democracy increases (decreases …Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight … against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in …

This study was motivated by the quest to investigate how the interaction between corruption and institutional quality … affects Nigeria's economic performance by testing the validity of the "sand the wheels" and "grease the wheels" corruption … Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to determine the interactive effects of corruption and institutional quality on …

Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … corruption (corruption-control) effects. Thus the intuition is assessing how globalization is instrumental in the fight against … corruption through human development (economic and social dimensions) and government quality (political dimension). Findings …

The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …

This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing …

The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption' has … reducing (increasing) corruption (corruption-control) are discussed …

The debate by Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption …' in its current state has the shortcoming of modeling corruption as a direct effect of development assistance. This note … extends the debate by assessing the channels of foreign aid to corruption in 53 African countries for the period 1996 …

The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) finding that aid deters corruption could have an important influence on policy and … updated data (1996-2010) from 52 African countries we provide robust evidence of a positive aid-corruption nexus. Development … assistance fuels (mitigates) corruption (the control of corruption) in the African continent. As a policy implication, the Okada …

Purpose – Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … corruption (corruption-control) effects. Thus the intuition is assessing how globalization is instrumental in the fight against … corruption through human development (economic and social dimensions) and government quality (political dimension). Findings …