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Using cross-country data for 51 countries, including 23 in Africa, the author controls for differences in per capita income and measures the effect of structural variables on a number of outcomes, including the quality, integrity and prestige of public service. He finds merit-based recruitment...
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This paper was submitted to the Review of Radical Political Economics in response to ‘The conservation of value: a rejoinder to Alan Freeman’, by Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy (DL), published in Review of Radical Political Economics in 1999. The response was rejected by the Editorial...
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and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular …
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Economic loss to society due to dishonesty can be quite large. Policy makers use several international indices that characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of citizens varies across sixteen countries. This...
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Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight … against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in … the corruption battle? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption-control throughout the …
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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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The number of member factories in the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association has grown more than 6.8 fold during the past 20 years to reach 5,700.This has been overshadowed by repeated deadly garment factory fires that have resulted in at least 267 workers losing their lives...
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This paper aims at identifying the effects of divorce alongside on corruption controlling. We find no significant … effect of divorce on corruption. The same conclusion is found in cross-section and panel data. …
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and to provide a new analysis on the relationship between conflict, corruption, natural resources and military expenditure … higher internal or external threats and for countries with large natural resource wealth once corruption levels are accounted …
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The rule of law is often treated as a major contributor to growth in the most developed countries and corruption as a … which rule of law and corruption influence; 1.) Growth and 2.) Ease of doing business. Three issues are addressed: 1.) Types … of externalities, 2.) Effect of corruption and rule of law on ease of doing business, and 3.) How corruption and rule of …
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