This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the links between corruption and the unofficial economy and their implications for the official economy. In a model of self-selection with heterogeneous entrepreneurs, we show that the entrepreneurs’ option to flee to the underground economy constrains a corrupt official’s ability to introduce distortions to the economy for private gains. The un...

This paper analyses the e¤ect of endogenous directed technical change in a resource-rich economy, embedding a version of Acemoglu’s model of directed technical change in a three-by-three trade theory model. Technical progress depends on entrepreneurs who either produce or adopt technology, and who endogenously choose which sector to operate in. The static e¤ect of a resource discovery is de-ind...

The coexistence of the government sector, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and private sector provides a natural setting to examine the impact of economic reform in Vietnam on gender earning differentials. The three sectors reflect different degrees of influence of the Socialist ideology, with the private sector most liberalised. Have women fared better during the transition into a market econom...

OBJECTIVES To implement and evaluate a public-private partnership to deliver the internationally recommended strategy DOTS for the control of tuberculosis (TB) in Lalitpur municipality, Nepal, where it is estimated that 50% of patients with TB are managed in the private sector. METHODS A local working group developed a public-private partnership for control of TB, which included diagnosis by ...

The country's economy is dependent on many variables that play a role in growth and development of the country. There are many variables in the economy that effect on country's economy. On the other hand rainfall is one of important factor of climate change that affected on economic strategic programs such as agriculture sector programs. Rainfall Changes effect on many economic variables that i...

considering the importance of the agriculture sector in iran, this study investigated factors affecting economic growth and development of the agriculture sector in iran over the period of 1967-2009 for short term and long term, using ardl model. the results showed that the ratios of public investment expenditure to the gdp for short-term and long term have positive impacts on the economic grow...

a world- wide tendency toward regional integrations and internationalization of free- economy, requires technological economic, and organizational balances. the success of government to reach the mentioned situations depends on the degree of uniformity and power of public institutions in a vast variety- sociological, economical; and political, the dimensions which provide and guarantee for bene...