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Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
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’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human … industrial development in China. Third, we provide evidence on achievements in indigenous innovation—by which we mean …, we sketch out the implications of our approach for current debates on the role of innovation in China’s development path …
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Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … a massive trans-border threat while creating high obstacles to sustainable and prospective development, ultimately …
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Corruption is a major source of slow development in Africa – the poorest region of the world. While extant research has … focused on the causes and consequences of corruption at the macro-level, less effort has been devoted to understanding the … micro-foundation of corruption, as well as the mechanisms through which poverty may be related to corruption and bribery. In …
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are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only …. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for now, its position in the world system, it may nonetheless create the … conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …
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We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of … foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional … on corruption is most significant in: Middle-income, French civil-law, Christian-dominated, non-oil exporting and …
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