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Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each … only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency - in a large number of customs agencies -- if the customs agency …'s director undertakes a big-bang approach to reform. We also find support for the corruption clubs theory - that customs agencies …
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Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each … only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency – in a large number of customs agencies -- if the customs agency …’s director undertakes a big-bang approach to reform. We also find support for the corruption clubs theory – that customs agencies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501838
Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each … only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency - in a large number of customs agencies - if the customs agency …'s director undertakes a big-bang approach to reform. We also find support for the corruption clubs theory - that customs agencies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189284
This empirical research investigates how bribery by firms influences their development. We acquired the most recent firm-level data from four Latin American countries — Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru — and looked into the firms' innovation capability. We also used a translog function...
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, answer questions about corruption, firm performance and how honest they are differently from other managers. If reticent …
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. The reduction in tariff rates was associated with a significant decline (60%) in bribe payments to customs officials for … tariff evasion on imported goods. This is however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into other firms of … of corruption. I then provide suggestive evidence on how these displacement affects can be economically costly given that …
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goods. The reduction in tariff rates was associated with a significant decline (60%) in bribe payments to customs officials … for tariff evasion. This was however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into more coercive forms of bribe … design of trade and anti-corruption policies. …
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Corruption at the border distorts resource allocation, undermines the level playing field for businesses, hampers the … policies could potentially reduce the incentives and the opportunities for corruption. This paper explores potential … determinants of border-related corruption and trade facilitation policies most likely to address it. Countries with higher …
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Ugandan micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) still perform poorly. The paper utilizes data collected in Uganda in March and April 2003 to analyze the business constraints faced by these MSEs. Using a stratified random sampling, a sample of 265 MSEs were interviewed. The study focuses on the 105...
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The relationship between technical progress and price competition is a controversial issue in economics. This paper highlights the fact that investment in technical progress is an authentic type of competition which benefits the consumers rather than the industry. This type of competition exists...
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