This paper charts the current evidence on effectiveness of different anti-corruption reforms, and identifies significant evidence gaps. Despite a substantial ...

More than one billion people in the world have some kind of disability. Apart from the obvious physical challenges facing disabled people, there may also ...

Corruption poses a serious threat to sustainable development and security. Donors spend large sums in support of interventions to reduce corruption and ensure that their funds are used for the intended purposes. Yet, despite these investments, the causes of corruption are better understood than how to most effectively reduce corruption.

Why do farmers expand their land into forests? Theories and evidence from Tanzania Arild Angelsen e

The evidence base for donors’ anti-corruption work points to some inconvenient truths about the prospects for success. We are far from possessing ...

Cluster Development Programs in Ethiopia: Evidence and Policy Implications Merima Ali, Olivier Godar

Schools and universities in various countries are teaching youth about integrity norms and values. Despite limited evidence on effectiveness, some good ...

The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except for male ...

The legitimacy of the tax system is likely to be compromised in the absence of public support. This article presents evidence from a discrete choice experiment ...

Limited fiscal capacity poses a significant challenge in developing countries. To mitigate this challenge, the adoption of electronic tax systems has ...

A number of lab experiments in recent years have analyzed people’s willingness to com-pete. But to what extent is competitive behavior in the lab ...

This article aims to organize thinking around human rights-based approaches to development (HRBAs) and to review available empirical evidence regarding ...

How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized sur

Despite the popularity of electoral gender quotas, the substantive impact of quotas on the plenary behavior of members of parliament (MPs) has yet to ...

Governments in developing countries are typically constrained by a limited fiscal capacity to finance the provision of essential public goods – ...

The number of Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) around the world has increased dramatically over the past decades. Nevertheless, the value of ACAs is increasingly ...

High levels of faith and finance have been invested in REDD+ as a promising global climate change mitigation policy. Since its inception in 2007, corruption ...

Pay-for-performance reduces bypassing of health facilities: evidence from Tanzania Sosina Bezu Chiks

Gender composition and group dynamics: Evidence from a laboratory experiment with microfinance clien

The project involves participation in the World Bank's efforts to build evidence relevant for solving the human resource crisis in the health sector in ...