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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Corruption Index"”.
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Mismatched motives: the economic consequences of distorted incentives in the public sector
… and explanations like fiscal rules, corruption and expected downturns. Chapter 3 (co-authored with Frank Bohn and Jan-Egbert Sturm) shows, both theoretically and empirically, that the mechanism of central bank deterrence to non-stabilizing fiscal shocks weakens substantially in a …
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Human population growth and the environment: the Africa perspective
… services sectors, consumption, the practice of corruption, net trade and CO2 emissions can help understand the key driving forces of environmental impacts. The study used time series data 1960-2010 available for CO2 emissions on the basis of income groupings. We estimated fixed effects, random …
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Institutional Reform in Support of Xi’s Anti-Corruption Campaign
<p>Corruption remains a pervasive challenge that distorts markets, undermines public service delivery, destabilizes social order, and erodes governmental legitimacy. In China, anti-corruption has been a recurring policy priority since 1949, culminating in Xi Jinping’s sweeping campaign launched in …
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Measuring Political Corruption from Population Outcomes: An alternative to perception measures
<p>The impact of corruption is an increasingly important and visible topic for academics, policy makers, and the public. Yet corruption is exceptionally difficult to directly observe and empirical measurements of corruption remain highly contested. Despite the increasing availability of corruption …
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Development of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in South Africa
… researched were GDP growth, inflation rate, corruption index, GDP per capita, sum of imports and exports as a % of GDP, infrastructure development, research and development and the GDP. This study used the unrestricted ARDL statistical technique in variables selection. This method kept 3 …
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The impact of government expenditure compositions on economic growth: an empirical analysis.
… The second objective is to examine the effect of corruption on economic growth via the compositions of government expenditure. The third objective is to investigate the impact of government expenditure on human capital and its important indicators (health and education) on economic growth. These …
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Essays in microfinance: their capital structure and financial inclusion.
… data, whilst data from the heritage index, ease of doing business index, and corruption index were employed as explanatory variables. This analysis examines key capital structure variables unique to MFIs namely; Leverage and Deposits. The leverage measure for MFIs captures total …