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development risks and losses for developing countries. Focusing on pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and consumer goods (which in … the wider region with a view to inform the development of prospective policy recommendations. …
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Illicit financial flows (IFFs) in West Africa have long contributed to the region’s instability, partly due to their links to regional terrorist organisations such as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). AQIM has directly and indirectly participated in and perpetuated illicit financial...
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conclude discussing the implications for the fight of more harmful forms of corruption. …
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Based on a first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on corrupt price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime in the USSR. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971...
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prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
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transaction by extending the one-shot bribery game introduced by Cameron et al. (2009) to a repeated game setting. We find that … the use of loaded language significantly reduces the incidence of bribery and increases the level of punishment …. Punishment of bribery leads to reduced bribery in future. The evidence suggests that this game captures essential features of a …
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The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (infirmal payments and state capture … the firm ownership. We use firm-level micro data collected by the Business Environment and Enterprise Perfirmance Survey … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and …
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There is increasing recognition that corruption has an adverse influence on growth as it distorts both market economy … sample selection is concerned. This paper empirically reexamines the relationship between corruption and growth after …, corruption is shown to be an obstacle to growth generally, a conclusion that is in line with the existing literature. Furthermore …
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The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … the firm ownership. We use firm-level micro data collected by the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and …
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conclude discussing the implications for the fight of more harmful forms of corruption. …
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