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Every initiative that potentially increases the effectiveness of monetary policy is welcome. The European Union's Capital Markets Union (CMU) project is potentially a point in case, even though monetary policy is not a policy target of CMU. Increasingly developed capital markets in the EU are...
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This article proposes a strategy to identify Syrian refugees in Turkey's Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS). Even though Turkey's HLFS contains information on the migrants' year of arrival to Turkey, it does not provide details on their nationalities. This unfortunate feature mixes Syrian...
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The race of states for digital leadership faces the challenges of digital transformation foresight, providing combinatorial effects and acceleration of digitalization processes, contributing to a more efficient allocation of limited financial resources. This situation determines the relevance of...
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The New Silk Road, or actually the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is a Chinese concept aimed at facilitating international trade between China, Europe and Africa as well as building a new international economic order and security system. More than 60 countries belonging to various economic...
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negative and significant influence on the illicit financial flow, while government effectiveness, corruption and FDI net …, build effective and accountable institutions, control corruption and enhance regulatory quality to control this issue. …
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tolerable level of corruption for investment (TLCI) in Africa (-0.27) over recent years. Moreover, corruption has been observed … estimated TLCIs for Europe and Asia are 0.534 and -0.735, respectively, on the control of corruption scale, which ranges from … reason may be due to the nature, scope, social role and the perception of corruption across these regions. …
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Corruption has become endemic in many African countries and is difficult to eradicate completely; therefore, reducing … corruption to a tolerable level that will not deter foreign investors must be the aspiration of all political leaders and … stakeholders. This study tries to identify the level of corruption that is tolerable to foreign investors, which is referred to as …
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The present work analyzes the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and corruption on the quality of the … environment in the MENA region. Indeed, the magnitude of corruption and the quality of institutions are often cited as the main … recommend greater awareness of the harmful effects of corruption among political and economic actors. …
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Purpose: The study investigates the effect of corruption on FDI inflows to West Africa, and also establishes a … threshold level of corruption for the sub-region. Design/Methodology/Approach: Using secondary data for the period 1999 … out. Findings: The results indicated that in the long-run, corruption adversely affects the inflow of FDI to West Africa …
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In this paper, the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows is analyzed. The literature is thus … far divided regarding the effects of corruption: One hypothesis argues that corruption greases the wheels of government … corruption measure from the World Governance Indicators of the World Bank is compiled. To further analyze the effects of …
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