Highlights: Private power investors face high risks in places where contract enforcement is weak. Investors without political connections rarely participate allowing collusion. ‘Contestable subsidies’ accessible ...
Anti-corruption needs a radical rethink. After decades of effort, the massive costs of corruption continue to harm many countries, and corruption appears to be increasing ...
Industrial policies increasingly rely on the use of special regimes which provide fiscal, regulatory and other advantages to firms that invest in a particular geographic ...
The Nigerian banking industry lacks comprehensive strategies for effectively addressing lending corruption and loan contracting in the sector.
Developing countries dependent on natural resource revenues to finance their budgets are characteristically prone to the boom-and-bust economic cycles driven by volatility in commodity markets.
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) remain a major issue in extractive economies such as Nigeria. Furthermore, strict capital controls and fixed exchange rates can often provide incentives ...
Lending corruption, which is the focus of this research, captures both paying bribes and using familiarity rather than merit as the metric to access credit.
The theory and measurement of illicit financial flows (IFFs) is a vital challenge for the implementation of SDG targets. The challenge has a number of ...
