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Law, economic growth and human development
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both … overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of … growth and human development beyond the mechanisms of law channels. As a policy implication results support benefits of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325593
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HDR 2003 - Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty. In 2000 the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted at the largest-ever gathering of heads of state, committed countries — rich and poor — to doing all they can to eradicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467207
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HDR 1996 - Economic Growth and Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 1996 Report opens with a fundamental statement: "Human development is the end - economic growth a means." The Report argues that economic growth, if not properly managed, can be jobless, voiceless, ruthless, rootless and futureless, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467221
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The connection between democratic freedoms and growth in transition economies
Jac, Heckelman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
framework, media independence, corruption, electoral process, and governance. Except for corruption, each is found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529311
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Corruption, Income Distribution, and Growth
Li, Hongyi; Xu, Lixin Colin; Zou, Heng-fu - China Economics and Management Academy, Central … - 2000
This paper uses an encompassing framework developed by Murphy et al. (1991, 1993) to study corruption and how it … affects income distribution and growth. We find that (1) corruption affects income distribution in an inverted U-shaped way …, (2) corruption alone also explains a large proportion of the Gini differential across developing and industrial countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207439
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The Economic Effect of Corruption in Italy: A Regional Panel Analysis
Lisciandra, Maurizio; Millemaci, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper provides a within-country analysis of the impact of corruption on economic growth using a panel of Italian … regions from 1968 to 2011 through a robust measure of corruption. This measure is averaged over 5-year periods to reduce short …-run fluctuations and to reduce probable delayed effects, which are typical for latent phenomena such as corruption. The results show a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168672
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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth
Campos, Nauro F.; Dimova, Ralitza; Saleh, Ahmad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742951
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Whither corruption? A quantitative survey of the literature on corruption and growth
Campos, Nauro F.; Dimova, Ralitza; Saleh, Ahmed - 2010
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses metaanalysis techniques to systematically … evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising 460 estimates of the effect of corruption on … for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors' affiliation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278614
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Using Supply, Demand, and the Cournot Model to Understand Corruption
Hayford, Marc D. - In: Journal of Economic Education 38 (2007) 3, pp. 331-340
useful framework for understanding the effect of corruption on economic activity. There are many examples of corruption in … both developed and developing countries. Because corruption decreases the level of economic activity and seems more common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464463
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The impact of corruption on economic growth in OIC countries
Ertimi, Basem Elmukhtar; Dowa, Abulkasem; Albisht, … - In: International journal of economics and finance 8 (2016) 9, pp. 91-103
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