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informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …
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. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …
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stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate … corruption-control. On the other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels … corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature, we establish causal evidence of …
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informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330033
. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330035
A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme...
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This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing …
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corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are …
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stability, low corruption, and voice and accountability are keys. Finally, critical masses required for these three key …
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Corruption remains a major challenge to sustainable economic growth, good governance, peace, and stability in both … corruption on hunger. Using three types of corruption (executive, legislative, and judicial corruption dynamics) and a panel of … 45 African countries, this study contributes to the literature on the effects of corruption by examining, as a first …
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