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Anatomy of Corruption : An Approach to the Political Economy of Underdevelopment

Alam, M. Shahid - 2015

An examination and critique of the functionalist literature on corruption in the political administration of less …, economic and administrative effects in most LDCs contrast with the facts. No benefits for development from corruption are found …; market corruption, for example, does not appear to improve allocative efficiency. The erosion in a government's capacity to …

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Some Economic Costs of Corruption in LDCs

Alam, M. Shahid - 2015

It has often been argued that bribery creates auction-like conditions and, hence, improves allocative efficiency of bureaucratic decisions. This article shows that these auction-like conditions are not likely to exist because officials will restrict access to bribery in order to reduce the risks...

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Debt affordability in developed and emerging market economies : the role of fiscal rules

Valencia, Oscar M.; Gómez González, José Eduardo; … - 2022

This paper studies the effect of fiscal rules on debt affordability in a large set of developed and emerging market economies, using a panel data model which allows the inclusion of weakly exogenous regressors, and which deals appropriately with cross-sectional dependence. The results show a...

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Financial development and economic growth : evidence from a panel of 16 African and non-African low-income countries

Bist, Jagadish Prasad - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper aims to investigate the long-run relationship between financial development and economic growth using panel unit root and panel cointegration analysis in 16 selected low-income countries for the period of 20 years from 1995 to 2014. The long-run relationship has been estimated using...

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A new and benign hegemon on the horizon? : the Chinese century and growth in the Global South

Tam NguyenHuu; Karaman Örsal, Deniz Dilan - 2020

data, such as cross-sectional dependence, heterogeneity and structural breaks, their models take these features into …

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A new and benign hegemon on the horizon? : the Chinese century and growth in the global South

NguyenHuua, Tam; Karaman Örsal, Deniz Dilan - 2019

macro panel data, such as cross-sectional dependence, heterogeneity and structural breaks, our models take these features …

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Natural gas, trade and sustainable growth : empirical evidence from the top gas consumers of the developing world

Alam, Md. Samsul; Paramati, Sudharshan Reddy; Shahbaz, … - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 7, pp. 635-649

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Remittances and financial development : empirical evidence from heterogeneous panel of countries

Bhattacharya, Madhumita; Inekwe, John Nkwoma; Paramati, … - In: Applied economics 50 (2018) 38, pp. 4099-4112

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The Effects of Technology-as-Knowledge on the Economic Performance of Developing Countries : An Econometric Analysis using Annual Publications Data for Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, 1976-2004

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S. - 2015

Extant literature indicates that technology, and by implication its underlying knowledge base, determines long-run economic performance. Absent from the literature with respect to developing countries are quantitative assessments of the nexus between technology as knowledge and economic...

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Assessing impact of health oriented aid on infant mortality rates

Yousuf, Ahmed Sadek - 2012

This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from in total 135 countries (for the purposes of this study, developing countries), between 1975 and 2010. Utilizing both conventional Instrumental Variable and System GMM approaches, a tentative conclusion...

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