Corruption and Development: New Initiatives in Economic Openness and Strengthened Rule of Law

By Augustine M. Nwabuzor. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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• Evaluating the prevalence of the undeclared economy in Central and Eastern Europe: An institutional asymmetry perspective (2015, background): “Second, a ‘neoliberal’ school of thought regards undeclared work practices as a result of high taxes and too much state interference in the free market (De Soto, 1989, 2001; London and Hart, 2004; Nwabuzor, 2005; Schneider and Williams, 2013).”
• Benchmarking in public procurement (2008, background): “World Bank studies put bribery at over $ 1million per year accounting for up to 12 percent of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of nations like Nigeria, Kenya, Venezuela ( Nwabuzor, 2005”
• Deciding to Bribe: A Cross-Level Analysis of Firm and Home Country Influences on Bribery Activity (2007, background): “One explanation of this negative relationship is that underpaid government workers may demand bribes to supplement their poor salaries (Nwabuzor, 2005).”
• Household Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa : Why They Matter for Growth, Jobs, and Livelihoods (2012, background): “As a result, enterprises stay small and get trapped in low productivity activities (Nwabuzor, 2005, Loayza et al., 2009).”
• Why some countries thrive despite corruption: The role of trust in the corruption–efficiency relationship (2010, background): “Scholars from virtually every discipline in the social sciences and business schools study it (e.g. Jain, 2001; Nwabuzor, 2005; Rodriguez et al., 2006; Svensson, 2003; Uslaner, 2004).”
• Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance (2017, background): “…(Maloney, 2004; McKenzie & Woodruff, 2006), along with the provision of higher levels of property rights protection (Marcoullier & Young, 1995; Nwabuzor, 2005; Thomas & Mueller, 2000), and improvements in the quality of governance, decreases in public sector corruption, and increases in the…”
• Out of the shadows: a classification of economies by the size and character of their informal sector (2014, background): “…from neo-liberal commentaries that view informal workers as micro-entrepreneurs voluntarily operating in the informal sector in order to avoid the costs, time and effort of formal registration (Becker, 2004; De Soto, 1989, 2001; London and Hart, 2004; Nwabuzor, 2005; Small Business Council, 2004).”
• Toward a Theory of the Informal Economy (2011, background): “Some see the informal economy as a source of unethical business behavior that tends to undermine the rule of law (eg, Argandona, 1999 ; Nwabuzor, 2005 ).”
• Evaluating the relationship between marginalization and participation in undeclared work: lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina (2021, background): “From this perspective, burdensome regulations, high taxes and corruption among public sector officials increase the costs of declared work and lead people to voluntarily exit the declared economy and operate in the undeclared economy (De Soto 1989, 2001; Nwabuzor 2005).”