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corruption in this sector. In this article, we test the proposition that a bigger construction sector is likely to be inimical to …
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This research evaluates the connection between corruption, economic development, and insecurity in several Colombian … (DEA) and the Dynamic Panel Data Model (DPDM). DEA is performed to evaluate social performance in terms of corruption …, economic development, and insecurity in Colombian departments with a higher level and risk of corruption and insecurity …
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Obasanjo, a long-standing critic of corrupt military regimes and co-founder of the global anti-corruption NGO Transparency …
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with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …
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corruption, citizenship, effective delivery of public goods and services, taxation and the evolution of democracy at different … levels of the Indian polity. The collection begins with the corruption surrounding the Commonwealth Games, and ends with the …
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€“ systematic clientelism, a power concentration index, and control of corruption. All were negatively related to the level of …-induced disincentives to agricultural production due to worsening corruption, concentration of political power, and a crowding out of …
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Social instability is a concept that economists rarely analyse, and yet it can lurk behind much economic policy-making.  China’s leadership has often publicly expressed its concerns to avoid ‘social instability’.  It is viewed as a threat both to the political order and to...
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Asia. Exacerbated by weak border management, corruption, and lack of income-generating alternatives, the “Northern Routeâ … corruption, engaging in human rights dialogues, as well as promoting more effective international cooperation—in particular …
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Theft and corruption are common in electricity distribution systems worldwide. Electricity theft is analysed in the … framework of an individual’s choice under uncertainty and through a three-layered principal-agent-client model of corruption …
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The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world’s largest and most controversial hydropower project. The 600 kilometer-long reservoir has displaced 1.3 million people and is wreaking havoc with the environment. The reservoir reached its final height in 2010, but many of its impacts...
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