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Multiples dimensions de la pauvreté, gouvernance et démocratie : le point de vue de la population malienne Enquête ELIM2006, Premiers résultats

Kuépié, Mathias; Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Sougane, Arouna - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

Public statistics face quite a challenge when it comes to measuring new dimensions of development (institutions, governance and social and political participation). Based on the experience acquired by the 123 survey in Bamako in 2001, the Malian National Statistics Office has appended three...

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Corruption et ouverture commerciale

Lavallée, Emmanuelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2002

Les relations entre corruption et ouverture commerciale ont été peu étudiées. Pourtant, plusieurs raisons portent à … croire que la corruption influence l’ouverture commerciale, et que, inversement, l’ouverture commerciale d’un pays joue sur … son niveau de corruption. On peut penser, par exemple, que la corruption en accroissant l’insécurité des échanges agit …

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Does "deep integration" foster trade? Empirical evidence and simulations for the EU democratic and anti-corruption criteria

Siroën, Jean-Marc; Duc, Cindy; Lavallée, Emmanuelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

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Trust and the Welfare State: The Twin Peaks Curve

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to benefit from them without bearing their costs. But civic individuals support generous benefits...

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Corruption and Market Competition: Evidence from Post-Communist Countries

Diaby, Aboubacar; Sylwester, Kevin - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 487-499

This paper empirically examines whether market competition is associated with greater bribe payments. We use firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys. Since market competition could be endogenous and some firms report zero bribes, we employ a tobit...

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Initial endowments and economic reform in 27 post-socialist countries

BenYishay, Ariel; Grosjean, Pauline - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 892-906

small and medium sized enterprises today and also experience endemic corruption. Our results indicate that the propensity …

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Foreign direct investment and governance quality in Russia

Kuzmina, Olga; Volchkova, Natalya; Zueva, Tatiana - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 874-891

This paper studies the effect of poor governance quality on foreign direct investment in Russia. Using a survey of businesses across forty administrative districts, we find that higher frequency of using illegal payments and higher pressure from regulatory agencies, enforcement authorities, and...

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Natural disasters, growth and institutions: A tale of two earthquakes

Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - In: Journal of Urban Economics 84 (2014) C, pp. 52-66

technical efficiency via a disruptive creation mechanism or reduce it by stimulating corruption, distorting the markets and …

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Public-sector transformation in South Africa

Wenzel, Philip - In: Progress in Development Studies 7 (2007) 1, pp. 47-64

This paper uses post-apartheid development and structural adjustment policies as macro-case studies for investigating the politics of service delivery during the first decade of democracy in South Africa. It provides a sobering outlook on South Africa's development and democratisation potential...

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The influence of national leader change on corruption and sovereign rating

Wang, Kuei-Yuan; Tu, Sheng-Min - In: Acta Oeconomica 64 (2014) November, pp. 79-97

Corruption is a critical social and ethical problem that can impede the economic growth of a country or even ruin a … sample, this study investigated the influence of national leader change on corruption and sovereign rating by analyzing one …, positive effect on the degree of corruption and the sovereign rating one year after the change in national leadership. By …

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