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SMEs development and corruption: Case of Kazakhstan

Suleimenova, Gulimzhan; Sadvokassova, Aigul; Rakisheva, … - In: Verslas: Teorija ir praktika / Business: Theory and Practice 19 (2018), pp. 1-8

The article presents a study of the corruption perception and the involvement of SMEs in corruption practices. The main … goal of the paper is to provide an analysis of corruption perception of the SMEs representatives, its parts and research … methodology to provide an adequate picture and analysis of corruption of the Kazakhstan. For obtaining a comparative picture, we …

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Economic structures, institutions and economic performance

Constantine, Collin - In: Journal of Economic Structures 6 (2017) 2, pp. 1-18

The contention that 'inclusive' institutions are the deep determinants of economic growth remains unsatisfactory. This paper develops an alternative theoretical and empirical case that economic structures are the fundamental cause of economic performance. Economic structures determine the rate...

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Region-specific Constraints to Doing Business: Evidence from Russia

Isakova, Asel; Plekhanov, Alexander - In: Aussenwirtschaft 66 (2011) 2, pp. 181-210

with other regions. For several business environment components, however, including corruption and access to finance, inter …

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Corruption and firm performance: Evidence from Greek firms

Athanasouli, Daphne; Goujard, Antoine; Sklias, Pantelis - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 43-67

This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data …. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of … 'administrative corruption', whereby firms engage in corrupt practices and bribery of government officials. We contrast the firm …

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The “Double Trap” in China—Multiple Equilibria in Institutions and Income and their Causal Relationship

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - In: Open Economies Review 34 (2022) 3, pp. 703-757

While institutions are said to be poor in China in cross-country comparison, recent research indicates that at the provincial level, institutional quality plays in fact an important role for the economic success of a province, municipality, or autonomous region in China. Our paper aims to add...

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Verwaltungsqualität entscheidet mehr als Regulierungsdichte über Wachstumspotenziale von Unternehmen

Kritikos, Alexander; Amoroso, Sara; Herrmann, Benedikt - In: DIW Wochenbericht 90 (2023) 42, pp. 585-592

Schnell wachsende Unternehmen schaffen in großem Umfang neue Arbeitsplätze und sind ein wichtiger regionaler Treiber von Wirtschafts- und Produktivitätswachstum. Dieser Bericht untersucht erstmalig, wie die Regulierungsdichte eines Landes und die Qualität der regionalen Verwaltungen, die...

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Public participation in local development in the opinion of local governments and social economy entities

Kryk, Barbara; Szamrej-Baran, Izabela - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 19 (2019) 1, pp. 71-91

The aim of the article is to assess the role and the level of social participation in local development in the light of the opinions of local governments and entities of social economy. In the new paradigm of territorial development, an important role is attributed to the cooperation of local...

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Regional convergence and trade liberalization under weak state capacity: Evidence from Mexico

Spruk, Rok - In: The European Journal of Comparative Economics (EJCE) 18 (2021) 2, pp. 173-216

Long-term regional convergence hypothesis is examined for 32 Mexican states in a regional growth model with poverty traps using a new dataset on regional income inequality for the period 1940-2011. Although zero-growth poverty trap hypothesis is rejected for 28 out of 32 states, the evidence...

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Unternehmensinsolvenzen: Anhaltender Rückgang bei fortbestehenden regionalen Differenzen

Röhl, Klaus-Heiner; Vogt, Gerit - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 43 (2016) 3, pp. 21-37

Seit dem letzten Höhepunkt im Jahr 2003 geht die Anzahl der Unternehmensinsolvenzen in Deutschland tendenziell zurück. Eine Ausnahme bilden die Krisenjahre 2008 und 2009. Für 2016 wird mit 22.000 Insolvenzfällen ein neuer Tiefststand seit der Jahrtausendwende erwartet. Der kräftige...

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Die Finanzströme von organisierter Kriminalität und Terrorismus: was wissen wir (nicht)?

Schneider, Friedrich - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 4, pp. 73-87

After providing a short literature review and some empirical evidence about the turnover of organized crime, the paper … tries a quantification of the turnover of organized crime with the help of a MIMIC estimation procedure for the years 1995 … to 2006 for 20 highly developed OECD countries. The volume of turnover from organized crime was 270 billion US-Dollar in …

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