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Crime and conflicts in Africa: consequences of corruption?

Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2013

With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …

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On the Effect of State fragility on Corruption

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data …/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more …

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A Good Turn Deserves Another: Political Stability, Corruption and Corruption-Control

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015

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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Is the international community helping to recreate the pre-conditions for war in Sierra Leone?

Hanlon, Joseph - 2005

reinstated chieftaincy system, and corruption is still endemic, while young people remain jobless and largely uneducated. Further …

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"Delangokubona" and the distribution of rents and opportunity: An exploration of tensions over race-based policies of redress and redistribution in South Africa

Cawe, Ayabonga - 2022

Capital spending on infrastructure presents a significant counter-cyclical tool, however contested it might be in a society as unequal as South Africa. The history of racial capitalism, racebased exclusion from economic participation, and an enduring political economy based on the concentration...

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The impact of Covid-19 and Russia-Ukraine war on food prices in fragile countries: Misfortunes never come singly

Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

The objective of the paper is to evaluate whether there is a change in the level or trend of food prices in fragile countries following the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. The empirical evidence is based on Interrupted Time Series Analysis. The following findings are established....

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Structural change(s) in Ghana: A comparison between the trade, formal and informal sectors

Caldarola, Bernardo - 2022

This paper uses the case of Ghana to unpack the role of the informal sector in the process of structural change. A structuralist view of structural change - framed as changes in the employment shares of different industries - is combined with the insight that countries strive to diversify...

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Domestic revenue mobilization and informality: Challenges and opportunities for sub-Saharan Africa

Gwaindepi, Abel - 2022

Effective domestic revenue mobilization has gained renewed urgency, especially in the light of the need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. In taxation debates, the 'informal sectors' have hitherto been assumed to be a part of the problem and implicitly mistaken for lucrative tax bases....

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Sub-Saharan growth surprises: Geography, institutions and history in an all African data panel

Cinyabuguma, Matthias; Putterman, Louis - 2006

We use two types of cross-country growth regression models to revisit explanations of slow growth in Africa looking at growth rate variation among African countries only. Both sets of models produce results that are surprising given conclusions based on global sample: within Africa, we .nd...

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Jobs and welfare in Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2013

Mozambique has achieved remarkable macroeconomic success over recent decades, boasting one of the world's highest rates of GDP growth. However, absolute poverty remains persistent, spilling over into social unrest. To better understand the link between aggregate growth and household welfare,...

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