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Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: The
Role of Corruption and Rule of Law
Hasan Ghura, Arezou Harraf1, Allam Hamdan2
1Department of Business Studies, Box Hill College Kuwait, Abo Halifa,
Kuwait
2Accounting and Economics Department, Ahlia University, Manama,
Bahrain
h.ghura@bhck.edu.kw
a.harraf@bhck.edu.kw
ahamdan@ahlia.edu.bh
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H2: Control of corruption moderates the positive relationship between the rule of law and
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Appendix 1: List of emerging economies selected in this study
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