The pharmaceutical sector in Pakistan forms a critical component in the provision of access to essential medicines for its citizens. However, the sector has hitherto been ...
Diversified business groups (DBGs) have played an important role in industrialisation in developing countries, and they continue to have an impact on economic growth, including ...
The privatisation of the Nigerian electricity sector was a much-anticipated reform exercise. Launched in 2010, the exercise was intended to modernise the sector and cater to ...
This briefing summarises the theoretical research framework of the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) research consortium based on our recently published Working Paper Anti-corruption in adverse contexts: strategies for improving implementation ...
This study analyses media coverage of corruption and anti-corruption efforts in a 19-month period before, during and after Nigeria’s 2019 election. Over 3,500 relevant stories were ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was established in 2002 by an Act of the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as ...
Publicly funded skills training programmes have generated poor employment and productivity outcomes across developing countries because the governance of skills programmes is not straightforward. Value ...
This briefing paper tests the hypothesis that improving the organisational capabilities of firms in tandem with skills training is an effective and feasible anti-corruption strategy in developing countries. It ...
Developing countries are characterised by political settlements where formal rules are generally weakly enforced and widely violated by the powerful. Conventional anti-corruption strategies have typically ...
West African countries are ranked especially low in global corruption perception indexes. The health sector is often singled out for particular concern given the role ...
