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, changes in global news sentiment have a larger impact on equity returns around the world, which does not reverse in the short …
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Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines...
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The paper finds a significant shift in the economic characteristics of civil conflicts during the1990s. Conflicts have become shorter but with more severe contractions and a stronger recovery of growth. The overall length and cost of the conflict cycle has probably declined. The stance of...
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Using panel data for a large number of countries, we find that economic contractions are not followed by offsetting fast recoveries. Trend output lost is not regained, on average. Wars, crises, and other negative shocks lead to absolute divergence and lower long-run growth, whereas we find...
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discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …
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This paper revisits the effects of corruption on the state's capacity to raise revenue, building on the existing …-2014, compiled by the IMF. It finds that-consistent with the existing literature-corruption is negatively associated with overall tax … revenue, and most of its components. This relationship is predominantly influenced by the way corruption interacts with tax …
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extent of state regulatory activities. Rising corruption also has a clearly positive impact on the growth of the shadow …
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Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such … the period 1985–98. The association between military spending and corruption is ascertained by using panel regression … techniques. The results suggest that corruption is indeed associated with higher military spending as a share of both GDP and …
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Recent studies have highlighted the adverse impact of corruption on economic performance. This paper advances the … hypothesis that corruption is largely a symptom of underlying weaknesses in public policies and institutions, a formulation that … provides deeper insights into economic performance than do measures of “perceived corruption.” The hypothesis is tested by …
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