Petty corruption in the developing world impedes citizens from receiving public services and operating their businesses …. In this paper, we show the importance of market structure in determining a corruption equilibrium. We do this in the … context of highway merchandise transportation in West Africa, where checkpoint officials frequently stop truck drivers for …

corruption. We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being … announcements that took place in 1997-99 in São Tomé and Príncipe (West Africa). For this objective we conducted purposely …-designed household surveys on perceived corruption in the public services/sector. These were carried out in São Tomé and Príncipe and in …

Purpose: The study investigates the effect of corruption on FDI inflows to West Africa, and also establishes a … out. Findings: The results indicated that in the long-run, corruption adversely affects the inflow of FDI to West Africa … Africa to be 6.3, indicating that below this level FDI inflow cannot be discouraged by corruption otherwise, FDI inflows …

conditions to be more important in determining transport costs. A key variable, especially in these countries, is corruption …. Very high corruption has the potential to prevent positive effects from road infrastructure on transport costs or to even …