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Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … panel framework. Using annual observations in a pooled setting (no country-fixed effects) confirms the positive link between … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged …
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places endowed with more amenities. In the crossroad between these factors, this paper investigates corruption as key element …. Results suggest the dual role of push and pull mechanisms at play, as high corruption incentivizes Italian skilled mobility to … destinations that, instead, exhibit lower corruption. Moreover, sensitivity of the prospective tertiary students to corruption …
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Up until the 1980s, studies on corruption were dominated by disciplines of public administration and sociology. In the … International Agency, corruption, which has a negative impact on most macroeconomic indicators, is “the abuse of entrusted power for … private gain”. Even though the disruption of corruption causing weak growth and investment rates has long been examined, there …
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¿El Perú se escapará esta vez de “la maldición de los recursos naturales”? ¿Podrá usar los abundantes recursos que genera la minería hoy, para cerrar las brechas sociales y reorientar su economía para mañana? ¿Podrá limitar los impactos ambientales y sociales negativos, que las...
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We investigate the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the … that oil windfalls had increased income inequality and benefited the wealthiest quintile of the population in regions with … income but increased the income share from unidentified sources traditionally associated with corruption. These effects of …
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, i.e. income inequality. This study identifies the mutual influence between corruption and income inequality in Asian … contribute literature on the theoretical modeling of the effect of corruption on income inequality, using the Ramsey Growth model … a reciprocal influence exists between corruption and income inequality in Asia, otherwise known as the corruption-inequality …
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and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … of law, transparency as measured by the corruption perceptions index from Transparency International, trust as measured …
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Central to the scientific debate about the 'informal sector' and the validity of the concept used to be a twofold challenge. The crux laid not only in the objective to explain the widely visible persistence of the informal economy in developing countries, but also in the identification of its...
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