This paper analyses how corruption may affect privatization. In particular, we study how corruption affects the acquisition price and the post-privatization ...

In countries with an ongoing violent conflict aid donors are confronted by four sets of issues: How the volume and orientation of the program may influence ...

Angola is the world’s second most concentrated country in terms of exports. Furthermore, concentration has increased during recent years. Angola ...

How does corruption affect the appropriateness and design of budget support? The aim of this issue paper is to compare the effectiveness of budget support ...

Currently, around seven million people are affected by migration and displacement to, from, and through Sudan. Nearly one million people are seeking refuge ...

This paper explores how the relationship between bureaucratic complexity and corruption affects the performance in utilities. We observe considerable ...

This study was commissioned by the UNDP Mine Action Team in response to increasing demands from mine-affected countries and donor governments for guidance ...

For resource-rich countries, diversification is claimed to represent a strategy for reducing resource curse problems. This, however, depends on whether ...

There is a widespread concern that adverse environmental effects of economic activities will seriously affect both the present and future welfare of people ...

Donor support to social accountability in fragile and conflict-affected states is a relatively new phenomenon. It has emerged with the lessons that ...

Following advice from the World Bank, and hoping for economic growth and independence from donors, a number of African countries have opened up opportunities ...

The purpose of this evaluation commissioned by Norad's evaluation department is to draw lessons from Norway's involvement over time in a country affected ...

This paper explores how the relationship between bureaucratic complexity and corruption affects the performance in utilities. We observe considerable ...

The introduction of ‘new' aid modalities - and in particular general budget support - has increased the interest in the relationship between corruption ...

In the last fifteen years, judicial claims to secure health services as a matter of right have become an important phenomenon in a number of countries ...

Since the mid-1980s, 32 countries around the world have adopted community development requirements into their mining laws, while nine countries are in ...

Corruption significantly affects the large majority of countries, and it has negative social and economic impacts. Its impacts on environmental and resource ...

Policies for diversification should focus on international regulation that affects elite incentives, rather than on domestic industrial policy in countries where the economy is in the hands of a few, concludes researchers.

While a number of studies documents macro level effects of natural resources, much less is known about how resources such as oil affect development prospects ...

Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, ...