Fighting corruption in Africa: do existing corruption-control levels matter?
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- Asongu Simplice, 2012. "Fighting corruption in Africa: do existing corruption-control levels matter?," Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. 12/012, African Governance and Development Institute..
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Keywords
Corruption; Democracy; Government quality; Quantile regression; Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
- C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- K10 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - General (Constitutional Law)
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-03-08 (Africa)
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