Frontline corruption and emigration in the Western Balkans

AI López García, B Maydom - Migration Studies, 2023 - academic.oup.com
How does frontline corruption influence individuals' decisions to emigrate? Existing research
has found that perceptions of grand political corruption promote emigration, particularly …

Remittance Receivers as Targets for Corruption in Latin America

PH Wong, O Merkle, M Siegel - The Journal of Development …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Migration can affect the practice of corruption in migrant-sending countries in a number of
ways. In this paper we test whether or not remittance receiving households are more likely to …

Bribing to escape poverty in Africa

SA Asongu, S Diop - International Journal of Public Administration, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty using the Afrobarometer survey.
Our data cover 38 countries consisting of three survey rounds and a sample of 151,345 …

Do Remittances Contribute to Presidential Instability in Latin America?

J Acevedo - Latin American Politics and Society, 2023 - cambridge.org
Are Latin American presidents at greater risk for removal in remittance-dependent
countries? Departing from the debate about whether remittances produce democratic or …

Remittance dependence, support for taxation and quality of public services in Africa

M Konte, G Ndubuisi - Journal of Institutional Economics, 2024 - cambridge.org
We explore the heterogeneous effect of migrant remittances on citizens' support for taxation
using a sample comprising 45,000 individuals from the Afrobarometer survey round 7 [2016 …

[PDF][PDF] Migrant Remittances and Local Taxes in Latin America

AIL García - gld.gu.se
This paper departs from the previous literature that considers only the national level and
formal taxes when investigating the relationship between migrant remittances and tax …