This paper investigates the impact urbanization, industrialization, corruption, human development, energy consumption … corruption on CO2 emissions is indeed heterogeneous and contradictory. Specifically, results exhibit that due to immature … economic system, and policy paralysis, corruption penetrates the developing economies, and eventually cause carbon emission and …

to governance. They however correlate with RICE in strikingly contrasting ways. A composite measure of the quality of … correlated with RICE. In other words, countries with governance institutions that are attractive to international investors tend …

option. The paper confirms a direct relationship between three independent variables (life expectancy, corruption perception … study demonstrated that a decrease in the dimension of corruption leads to an increase in the human development, since the … growth of corruption perception index is associated with a fall in the corruption dimension. On the other hand, an inverse …

political and governance regime in a cross-country framework. The underlying hypothesis is that in addition to income, as … represented by Human Development Index (2007) and Human Poverty Index (2006). Democracy Index (2008) and Corruption Perceptions …

pandemics like COVID-19. However, urban rivers, today, are facing multiple challenges, such as river pollution, drying up of …

Whether and to what extent corruption drives emigration has received growing attention in the literature in recent … intentions and individual, as well as country-level measures of corruption, and propose to instrument the endogenous presence of … corruption in a country with the prevalence of cashless transactions in the economy to correct for potential estimation bias. We …

Whether and to what extent corruption drives emigration has received growing attention in the literature in recent … intentions and individual, as well as country-level measures of corruption, and propose to instrument the endogenous presence of … corruption in a country with the prevalence of cashless transactions in the economy to correct for potential estimation bias. We …

setting, by explicitly introducing corruption. Following the World Banks denition (World Bank, 1997), we regard corruption as … show that corruption distorts managerial effort incentives, leading to an increase in the extent of inefficiency. We derive … stochasticvcost frontier approach to analyze the e¤ects of accountability and corruption on the costs of providing municipal solid …

The paper investigates the link between corruption and efficiency by using a rich micro-level dataset concerning solid … corruption on cost efficiency we estimate a stochastic latent class frontier approach, which accounts for technological … heterogeneity across units. The results of our estimates show that corruption significantly increases inefficiency, a finding which …