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Money laundering and the shadow economy in Kazakhstan

N. Niyetullayev, Nurlan; Almond, Paul - In: Journal of Money Laundering Control 17 (2014) 2, pp. 128-140

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess and highlight the approach taken towards the legal control of illicit money laundering taken in the Republic of Kazakhstan, in particular, the role played by an amnesty on the legalisation of illicit funds. This is particularly important as a...

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Informal funds transfer systems : an analysis of the Informal Hawala System

Qorchi, Mohammed el-; Maimbo, Samuel Munzele; Wilson, … - Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2003

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there has been increased public interest in informal funds transfer (IFT) systems. This paper examines the informal hawala system, an IFT system found predominantly in the Middle East and South Asia. The paper examines the historical and...

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On the nonlinear relationships between shadow economy and the three pillars of sustainable development : new evidence from panel threshold analysis

Saafi, Sami; Nouira, Ridha; Assidi, Nadia - In: Studies in nonlinear dynamics and econometrics : SNDE ; … 27 (2023) 3, pp. 355-375

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How does social capital reduce the size of the shadow economy?

Lee, Dongwon - In: Global economic review 42 (2013) 3, pp. 251-268

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The effect of informal employment and corruption on income levels in Brazil

Bologna, Jamie - 2014

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Drivers of firm formalization in Vietnam : an attention theory explanation

Nguyen, Tam; Verreynne, Martie-Louise; Steen, John - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 26 (2014) 7/8, pp. 574-593

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Determinants of Russia's informal economy : the impact of corruption and multinational firms

Smith, Natalya; Thomas, Ekaterina - In: Journal of East-West business 21 (2015) 2, pp. 102-128

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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015

Schneider, Friedrich; Medina, Leandro - 2017 - Revised version

This paper is a first attempt to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. Using the Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) method we apply for the first time (i) the light intensity approach instead of GDP avoiding the...

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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015

Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017 - Revised version

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...

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Seeking rent in the informal sector

Kar, Saibal; Mandal, Biswajit; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2019

interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …

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