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The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
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corruption on economic growth of AFTZ member states. The study employed a panel data analysis for the period 2010-2016, using … Stata Statistical Software. The study findings for the bloc, indicated that corruption, trading across borders, getting …
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corruption in admissions to public colleges. The idea of vouchers failed while the test faces furious opposition and crises. This … paper considers vouchers, standardized tests, educational loans, and privatization as related to educational corruption. The … test is criticized by many for being a cause of the further increase in educational corruption. However, the test is needed …
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dissertations or qualifications of newly produced doctorates. Such a trend may in part be a result of the growing corruption in … Federation. It describes corruption in conferring doctoral degrees in its most explicit forms and focuses on possible solutions … corruption in doctoral education really a bad thing? Is it possible to stop such a practice and how? Answering these questions …
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This paper considers corruption in higher education in Russia as reflected in the national media, including such … aspects as corruption in admissions to higher education institutions and corruption in administering the newly introduced … standardized test. The major focus is on the opinions of the leading figures of the education reform as related to corruption in …
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Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. There is a phenomenal … growth in the number of media reports on corruption in higher education over the last decade. However, the rigorous … systematic research on education corruption is virtually nonexistent. This paper considers corruption in higher education as …
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This paper investigates a possible impact of education corruption on economic growth in Russia. It argues that high … levels of education corruption may harm total factor productivity in the long run, primarily through lowering the level of … reduce education corruption in the short run, but can eventually lead to implementation of higher ethical standards in the …
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Yukos Crisis, as a legitimate battle against corruption. However, in the transition economies, the state can abuse its power … retaining its monopoly power as a “fight with corruption”. In this paper we build a game between the state firm (government) and …
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The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
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The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing firms during the crisis. We presume that the crisis has ambiguous effects on firms' behaviour, on one hand limiting their financial capabilities to invest into new products...
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