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 ...
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 ...
Digital identity systems are being enthusiastically adopted in Africa and Asia as a response to corruption, inefficient service delivery, high costs of doing business, and ...
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 ...
Although SOAS-ACE has aimed to promote better development via effective anti-corruption, it has also produced a range of insights that are critical for building resilience.
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.
The Nigerian banking industry lacks comprehensive strategies for effectively addressing lending corruption and loan contracting in the sector.
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 ...
