Asset declarations serve in many countries as a tool for detecting and preventing illicit enrichment and conflicts of interests among public officials. ...

Recent high-profile cases have focused attention on the transfer of assets abroad by heads of state and other senior officials from developing countries ...

Economic experiments have become extremely influential in economics, by enriching both our understanding of individual motivation and rationality.

This article disaggregates aid data to enrich our understanding of the patterns of postconflict aid. We find that the front-loading of aid after a peace ...

In 2016, the ‘secret loans affair’ sprung on to the Mozambican political scene with the discovery that three government-owned companies – ...

Nigeria has experienced military coups, a civil war and very poor economic development, and its population is more impoverished today than at independence. ...

Impartial, competent and efficient judiciaries are vital in addressing corruption. Both qualitative and quantitative aspects of performance should be ...

Elin Skaar's new book analyses the connections between transitional justice and judicial politics. She explores the role of courts in shaping options and trajectories of post-transitional justice - and concretely the chances of criminal prosecutions for past crimes in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

CANCELLED. Professor Amos Sawyer cannot come to Bergen 23 May.

Ghana discovered oil in 2010. The country now produces 100 000 barrels a day, amounting to an income of 1 billion dollars a year. Are the country's institutions strong enough to withstand the resource curse? -Yes, says Inge Amundsen, senior researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute.

Susan Rose-Ackerman and Tina Søreide are co-editing the second volume of the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, to be published ...

This introductory chapter outlines the distinctions between, on the one hand, political and bureaucratic corruption, and, on the other hand, between extractive ...

In spite of the economic and social policy successes of Latin America’s longest surviving democracy, corruption has become a major problem shaking ...

This thesis investigates the role of political funding in two electoral authoritarian regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The issue of political funding has ...

Learning the right lessons from past experiences with corruption in the forest sector is crucial to prevent broad undermining of REDD+.

As a direct response to Norway’s “Brazil strategy” of enhancing research cooperation on global issues between Norway and Brazil, CMI ...

Why do courts hold political power-holders accountable in some democratic and democratizing countries, but not in others?  And, why do some courts ...