The Private Sector as Culprit and Victim of Corruption in Africa
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corruption; Africa; private sector; public sector;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2013-09-24 (Africa)
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