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Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that go against the status quo - to remain in school longer or...
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The paper uses a gravity trade model to examine the impact of corruption on bilateral trade using a data set comprising … OECD economies, new EU members and developing nations. Although the level of corruption of both the importing and exporting …
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, the paper goes beyond previous studies investigating also the impact of geographic identification, corruption and … globalization. We find that a higher level of (perceived) corruption reduces the trust in the UN in developed countries, but …
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Some researchers claim that diverse populations lead to less trust. Generalized trust is a core value that leads to positive outcomes in societies
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Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on … environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and corruption are equally important determinants …. When these variables are jointly included as explanatory variables, we find that corruption stands out as an important …
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Corruption in the forest sector of Swat, Pakistan is impairing the sustainable management of forest. We analyze … corruption in a case study setting against the backdrop of the reform options that are most often cited as possible solutions. As … environment is weak. Since countrywide overhaul of corruption through sweeping reform programs, the other reform approach, is a …
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Foreign investments are in the focus of most governments around the world. In order to be able to set a policy agenda which is successful in promoting FDI, it is necessary to understand their detfirminants. This paper examines whether and to what extent sound institutions and the degree of...
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This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers and readers face similar risks. Both are adversely affected when corrupt insiders use the newspaper for personal profit and receive invisible revenues. This means that relevant...
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This paper considers the effect of corruption on the effciency of capital investment. Using firm-level level data from …
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We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments. Our model shows that corruption may have different … market. Using Swedish firm-level data, we find that affiliate local sales decrease with corruption, while affiliate exports … increase. Finally, corruption has a negative effect on the probability that a foreign firm will invest in a country. These …
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