We mapped the formal and informal processes involved in contracting for solar power projects in Bangladesh. The governance of these processes has been poor, and ...
Digitalisation of government services in developing countries is often heralded as a tool for enhancing transparency, improving service quality and mitigating informal payments to government ...
In Bangladesh, as in many developing countries, the absence of regulatory information about the quality of medicines allows identical medicines to be sold at much ...
Informal payments constitute one of the most persistent problems of corruption within the Tanzanian health system. However, recent research suggests that following the Tanzanian government’s ...
This toolkit provides a step by step guide to analysing corruption problems and developing realistic and effective anti-corruption strategies in contexts where the rule of ...
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 ...
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.
In contexts where rents from a particular sector or activity are shared widely and are substantially larger than available alternatives for the widest cross-section of society, common strategies such as increasing transparency and accountability measures, targeting behaviour, or identifying incentives are unlikely to result in reduced corruption.
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 ...
