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Towards the Reversal of Poverty and Income Inequality Setbacks Due to COVID-19: The Role of Globalisation and Resource Allocation

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Armah, Mark Kojo; Asmah, Emmanuel E. - 2021

and income inequality, is hard to find. Motivated by the bleak outlook of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region … analyse the poverty and income inequality effects of globalisation and resource allocation in the region. Using data from the … that: (1) while economic globalisation reduces both poverty and income inequality, social globalisation matters only for …

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Effects of third party errors

Šastitko, Andrej E. - 2013

Type-I and type-II errors effects do matter both from the rules enforcement perspective and vertically upward to rules enactment. The paper support conventional idea about detrimental influence on deterrence of both types of errors. At the same time special role of type-I errors is demonstrated...

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Good Intentions and Unintended Evil? Clients’ Punishment in the Market for Sex Services with Voluntary and Involuntary Providers

Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2015

While there is no consensus concerning the legal and moral judgment towards prostitution, there is an overwhelming agreement on the need to fight sexual slavery. The paper shows the effect of clients’ punishment in the market for commercial sex (the so called neo-abolitionism or nordic...

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Epidemic corruption: a bio-economic homology

Hathroubi, Salem - 2013

This paper aims to study corruption as an epidemic phenomenon using the epidemic diffusion model of Kermack and Mc-Kendrick (1927). We seek to determine the dynamics of corruption and its impact on the composition of the population at a given time. We determine a threshold epidemiological...

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VAT Evasion in Bulgaria: A General-Equilibrium Approach

Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2016

This paper utilizes an otherwise standard micro-founded general-equilibrium setup, which is augmented with a revenue-extraction mechanism to assess the magnitude of VAT evasion. The model is calibrated to Bulgaria after the introduction of the currency board (1999-2014), as one of the very few...

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La CEDEAO, autrefois puissance affirmée en Afrique de l'Ouest réduite à un tigre de papier ?

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

L'intégration économique entre les États membres de l'Afrique de l'Ouest était le mandat initial de la CEDEAO. Les menaces au développement, à la paix et à la sécurité ont conduit la communauté à élargir son mandat pour inclure la gestion des conflits. La CEDEAO a établi un bilan...

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L'UEMOA, survivra-t-elle à la montée du sentiment anti-français en Afrique de l'Ouest ?

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

L'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA) a été créée par la France pour contrer la domination des pays anglophones d'Afrique de l'Ouest, en particulier le Nigeria et le Ghana, sur l'Afrique de l'Ouest francophone. La francophonie en Afrique occidentale française est...

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Will UEAMO survive the rise of anti-French sentiment in West Africa?

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) was established by France to counteract the dominance of Anglophone countries in West Africa, particularly Nigeria and Ghana, over Francophone West Africa. Francophonie in French West Africa is mainly driven by a power elite, the 'Pré...

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ECOWAS, once an assertive power in West Africa, reduced to a paper tiger?

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

Economic integration among West African member states was the original mandate of ECOWAS. Threats to development, peace and security led the community to expand its mandate to include conflict management. ECOWAS has established a commendable record in peacekeeping. Its intervention in Liberia...

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My Wage is Unfair! Just a Feeling or Comparison with Peers?

Schneck, Stefan - 2013

This paper descriptively analyzes the nexus between income comparisons and perceptions of unfair pay. A German household survey reveals that individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn significantly lower wages than fairly paid individuals with similar characteristics. This suggests that...

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