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Multiples dimensions de la pauvreté, gouvernance et démocratie : Le point de vue de la population malienne Enquête ELIM2006, Premiers résultats
Kuepie, Mathias; Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Sougane, Arouna - DIAL - 2008
(english) Public statistics face quite a challenge when it comes to measuring new dimensions of development (institutions, governance and social and political participation). Based on the experience acquired by the 123 survey in Bamako in 2001, the Malian National Statistics Office has appended...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181781
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The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy in Ukraine and other Central and Eastern European countries
Cherviakova, Valentyna; Cherviakova, Tetiana - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 7-30
The article investigates the causes, essence, and peculiarities of corruption and the shadow economy, as well as how … between levels of corruption and the shadow economy in all Central and Eastern European countries. However, the degree to … which corruption impacts the variation in the levels of the shadow economy differs significantly in countries across the …
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The tragedy of corruption
Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528171
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Corrupt local government as resource farmers : the helping hand and the grabbing hand
Dalgic, Engin; Long, Ngo Van - 2004
We study the role of tax share and transparency of governance on growth and stagnation. A local government maximizes its private benefits using two activities. The first one consists of providing local public goods that help local firms to increase profits, thus enlarging tax revenue. The second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450277
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Public goods provision with rent-extracting administrators
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778679
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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators
Cagala, Tobias - 2018
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927572
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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators
Cagala, Tobias - 2018
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929025
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Inequality, institutions and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305896
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Inequality, institutions, and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301914
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Impact of Household Size, Family Composition and Socio Economic Characteristics on Poverty in Rural India
Meenakshi, J.V.; Ray, Ranjan - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 1999
This paper utilises micro data on consumption, family composition and land ownership of nearly 70,000 rural Indian households to analyse poverty. The study combines household level information with State level welfare indicators to examine the impact of household size and composition, caste, sex...
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