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Corruption and economic growth: A meta-analysis of the evidence on low-income countries and beyond

Ugur, Mehmet; Dasgupta, Nandini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Corruption is a symptom and outcome of institutional deficiency, with potentially adverse effects on economic growth. This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the existing evidence on the relationship between corruption and economic growth - controlling for effect type, data sources, and...

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Terms of Trade Instability, Economic Vulnerability and Economic Growth: The Role Of Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Zaouali, Amira - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Economists have a long argue that institutions and implementation of good governance are important for economic growth. The main objective of this research is to demonstrate that one of positive institutions effects is its ability to mitigate the negative effect of economic vulnerability linked...

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Relationship Between Financial Aid Policies, Practices and Procedures at Texas Public Colleges and Universities

Kornrum-Byrne, Desiree - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

financial aid administrators at Texas public colleges and universities regarding institutional financial aid processes (survey … derived from the 2001 Survey of Undergraduate Financial Aid Policies, Practices and Procedures (SUFAPP) developed by the … from the survey database whether definable patterns of institutional financial aid processes existed. This research was …

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Market Information Services

Giovannucci, Daniele; Shepherd, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Information is the lifeblood of most market economies. Nevertheless, attempts to jump start information flow by creating Market Information Services for food and agriculture usually fail. The author distills experiences and lessons from other studies and individual experts in the field on the...

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Entrepreneurship. How important are institutions and culturally-based prior beliefs?

Ferrante, Francesco; Ruiu, Gabiele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Although there is still no consensus on the causes of large differences in income per capita across countries, a growing literature considers culturally-based beliefs and institutions as main drivers of the latter differences (Guiso et al. 2006; Tabellini 2010). The intuition is that institutions...

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Institutions and growth: Testing the spatial effect using weight matrix based on the institutional distance concept

Ahmad, Mahyudin; Hall, Stephen G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study augments a standard growth model with institutional controls, and models the spatial dependence using geographical and institutional weight matrices. Spatial Durbin model is shown to be the most appropriate to describe the data and political institutions weight matrix best explains...

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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...

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Corruption et Etats fragiles africains

Oasis, Kodila-Tedika; Remy, Bolito-Losembe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Drawing from the literature on the determinants of corruption, this article examines the relationship between corruption and the nature of state of fragility. Robust empirical evidence shows a correlation between the level of corruption and state fragility. In a further assessment with the...

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Esclavagisme et colonisation : Quelles conséquences contemporaines en Afrique ? - Résumé critique des travaux de l'économiste Nathan Nunn

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This article aims to highlight the first work of economist Nathan Nunn on slavery and colonization. Indeed, for the latter, these two historical facts, quantifiable consequences, have defined the path of economic development of African countries. Secondly, this paper discusses the findings of...

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Acceleration, Stagnation and Crisis: the Role of Policies and Institutions

Jerzmanowski, Michal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this paper we study long run economic growth as a sequence of accelerations, slowdowns and crises, and estimate the role of institutions and macroeconomic policies in determining this sequence. We analyze the joint effect of policies and institutions on the frequency of the four growth...

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