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In this paper, we analyze some aspects of cronyism and corruption in India. We develop a three-stage game … striking is that only the political party gains with increase in cronyism and corruption. The society as a whole suffers (total …
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The soliciting of personal favours for and from others in order to circumvent formal procedures is a common practice across the world, variously known as guanxi, wasta, blat, and jeitinho. Until now, however, there have been no known empirical studies of this practice in South-East Europe. This...
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The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...
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Corruption has been identified as a significant issue in telecommunications, seen in bribery and nepotism over many … potential problems. There has been no discussion of corruption in the meetings, except its use to reduce corruption elsewhere …. It is essential for discussion to be opened on corruption in general and the introduction of anti-corruption practices …
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corruption in the distribution of formal credit. The existing moneylender, the bank official and the new moneylenders move …
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determinants such as: corruption, regulation and bureaucracy, quality of public and government services, detection probability …
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In this article we seek to substantiate the relation between ethics, corruption, governance and development in emerging … ethics, corruption and the improve of governance of the countries. We first construct a relation between ethics and … corruption and between corruption and governance of the country. For doing this last relation, we consider that the level of the …
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This paper addresses the impact of corruption on bank risk-taking behavior, using the bank-level data of more than 1200 … banks in 35 emerging economies during the period 2000-2012. We find consistent evidence that more severe corruption … increases the risk-taking of banks, in favor of the “sand the wheel” view in the corruption-development nexus. In addition, we …
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This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …
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