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these sectors are confronted with different challenges ranging from corruption, political risk, economic uncertainty, sunk … their private counterparts. When it comes to the determinants, economic policy uncertainty, corruption, and political …
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Ethiopia, which have allowed for widespread corruption, are now harming the growth of SMEs. According to the findings …, political instability, corruption, and COVID-19 are now having a substantial effect on the growth of SMEs in Ethiopia. These … sequential policy reform in the region, as well as a review of current policies aimed at ensuring effective corruption control in …
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This Selected Issues paper reviews the extent to which growth in Ethiopia has translated into higher living standards. A key feature of the economic strategy has been an explicit commitment to poverty reduction and structural transformation. This is underpinned by the vision of a...
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This paper aims at finding and analyzing the key determinants of Egypt’s fiscal deficits for the period of 1985-2013. It hypothesizes that the political and institutional factors are more important than macroeconomic variables to explain the fiscal deficits of the country in question. In...
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We investigate the relationship between corruption and political stability, from both theoretical and empirical … the private sector is more willing to bribe stable incumbents. The horizon effect dominates at low levels of stability … between total corruption and stability. On the empirical side, we find a robust U-shaped pattern between country indices of …
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. Capital account openness, differentials in interest rates, political stability, corruption, indebtedness and the exchange rate …
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This article examines how governance, particularly corruption control and political stability, affects deforestation … due to agricultural land expansion. We estimate the short-run and long-run effects of corruption control and political … run but an insignificant effect in the long run. In contrast, corruption control has a negative and significant effect on …
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hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002–2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
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hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002–2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
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