Market reforms in developing and transition economies have sometimes failed to deliver the desired welfare effects. Corruption may be an important reason ...

Since the year 2000, an international reform process has been underway to reduce the negative impacts of tax havens. This paper analyzes whether the reform ...

Montenegro shares many aspects of corruption with other post-communist states: the legacy of large, non-competitive bureaucracies, underdeveloped market economy, scarcity of resources, and lack of democratic governance.

The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, a number ...

This PhD project explores corruption in international trade and foreign direct investment. Tina Søreide is a PhD student at the Norwegian School ...

Interventions to fix market failures in infrastructure have often resulted in some form of governance failure and this contributes importantly to explain ...

The World Bank identified judiciary among institutions which ran down during centralized governance. The Bank also expressed the need for and willingness ...

The currently used concept of private sector corruption does not cover new types of corruption that have emerged in response to the increasing complexity ...

The current debate within development research strongly emphasise the role of interest groups in developing and sustaining democratic and liberal economic ...

African states continue to undergo change and upheaval. While some struggle with authoritarian and military regimes, almost all, whether multi-party democracies or dictatorships, whether "free market" or socialist, have experienced "the failure of male-dominated" politics, says Akosua Adomako Ampofo.

There is political will to strengthen the tax system in Angola. If properly designed and implemented, the new tax system can improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the public sector. One of the main challenges, however, will be to convince the citizens of Angola about the value of paying taxes. This will require not only reforms, but a major cultural shift.

This paper assesses determinants of crop market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania, with a focus on transaction cost, asset endowment ...

"Litigation may be an effective means to secure economic, social and cultural rights," says Camila Gianella. As a result of numerous health rights litigations, the Colombian Constitutional Court ordered extensive structural reforms of the country's health system.

This study explores the hitherto unaddressed question of how the large, complex paddy‐rice market in Bangladesh is able to solve the problem of ...

An econometric analysis of what determines market access for developing countries in the sovereign

Tourism is an information-intensive market, characterised by asymmetric information between service providers and the customer. Intermediaries have traditionally ...

The two papers present proposals for the economic reconstruction of Ethiopia, based on the interests of the peasants and other poor groups. In the first ...

Ethiopia has implemented one of the largest, fastest and least expensive land registration and certification reforms in Africa. While there is evidence ...

Commentary: Enclosing Blue Commons, Generating Blue Growth? Comment on Fiona McCormack’s “Precarity,

(A dissertation submitted for the degree of dr. econ. Norwegian School of Economics and Buisness Administration, Bergen)