Corruption in the Informal Sector: Evidence from West Africa

Emmanuelle Lavallée and François Roubaud
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Emmanuelle Lavallée: LEDA-DIAL - Développement, Institutions et Modialisation - LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)

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Abstract: Using a unique dataset, this paper analyses the causes and impacts of bribery in the informal sector in West Africa. It investigates the determinants of the incidence of bribery and the magnitude of the bribes actually paid. Our results show that the mechanisms at play are no different than those found for the formal sector by other authors. With respect to the impacts of corruption on a firm's performance, our findings show that experience of corruption increases business performance, but that this effect is driven by just one category of informal firm: constrained gazelles.

Keywords: corruption; Microeconomic Analyses; Economic Development; Informal sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in The Journal of Development Studies, 2018, ⟨10.1080/00220388.2018.1438597⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1438597

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