The Mental Health Cost of Corruption: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Robert Gillanders, 2016. "Corruption and anxiety in Sub-Saharan Africa," Economics of Governance, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 47-69, February.
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Keywords
Mental Health; Corruption; Well-Being; Sub-Saharan Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2011-12-19 (Africa)
- NEP-HEA-2011-12-19 (Health Economics)
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