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Many studies examining whether corruption lowers economic growth do not consider if the effects of corruption differ … across countries. Whether corruption produces the same effects everywhere or whether its effects are conditional on some … country characteristics is an important question. We investigate the association between corruption and growth, where the …
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This paper objective was a survey on current academic and policy debates on corruption, corruption in water sector …, corruption factors, combating corruption and the implications of the various international initiatives on social and economic …, strategies, raports, policies, research studies, laws), which provide theoretical and practical research on corruption and …
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Contrary to the currently dominant view, it was not poor governance nor the associated corruption which were the prime …
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Corruption causes severe waste and misallocation of financial, human, and natural resources, thus retarding growth and … public sector, and undermining economic diversification and structural transformation. While traditionally corruption has … been seen as a public sector phenomenon, private sector corruption deserves as much attention as public sector corruption …
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on the firms’ actual emissions. Market entry is an important element in the relation between corruption and pollution …. Particularly, the incidence of corruption increases the number of entrants in the market, while the bureaucrats’ incentives to be … corrupt are higher in a market with more competitors. We find multiple equilibria where both corruption and pollution are …
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disfunction as a result of action of institutional factors, in particular, corruption as an informal negative institute. The … the level of perceptible corruption. This suggests that democracy facilitates dispersion of responsibility and alienation …
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This paper uses Swiss data and two novel instrumental variables to test the channels through which migrants promote trade. Using immigration in France and visa restrictions as instruments for immigrantion in Switzerland, I identify a protrade effect that takes place entirely on the extensive...
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With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …
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, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the … on the other hand, were responsible for the incompetence shown in providing relief, for involvement in corruption related … responsible for different types of corruption and mismanagement provided us with a unique data to differentiate between voter …
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, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the … on the other hand, were responsible for the incompetence shown in providing relief, for involvement in corruption related … responsible for different types of corruption and mismanagement provided us with a unique data to differentiate between voter …
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