The Taxation, Institutions and Participation (TIP) project investigates the effects of tax havens on the domestic revenue system, institutions ...

Africa is a source of large-scale capital flight. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how banks facilitate capital flight from Africa. ...

Capital flight erodes the financial basis of developing countries, and the illicit financial flows are a major constraint for the implementation ...

Africa is a source of large-scale capital flight. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how banks facilitate capital flight from Africa. ...

This paper analyzes the importance of human and social capital for entrepreneurial success, using survey data of 459 urban entrepreneurs in ...

This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There ...

Systematic studies of the banking sector’s involvement in facilitating capital flight from developing countries are limited. This report ...

Which is the most binding constraint to microenterprise development, human capital or financial capital? To answer this question, we present ...

Absence of a well-developed capital market has been listed as a key obstacle to industrialization in developing countries in the development ...

A field experiment from Tanzania shows that business training improves sales and profit figures for men, but has no effect for women's business performance. -Promoting development among female entrepreneurs is challenging and needs comprehensive measures. We need to pay more attention to the external constraints that limit their possibilities, says Bertil Tungodden.

The general question underlying this project is the following: Under which conditions does microfinance actually assist the poor to move out ...

Studies of microbusiness in poor countries find high marginal returns to capital but also lack of investments. This paper analyzes how caste-based ...

Studies of microbusiness in poor countries find high marginal returns to capital but also lack of investments. This paper analyses how segmentation ...

Economist focusing on taxation, fiscal corruption and capital flight.

This paper focuses on the interaction between world community and capital markest within the framework of an extended neoclassical growth model. ...

Several African countries are among the fastest growing economies in the world. However, capital flows to tax havens are one factor ...

Microenterprises constitute an important source of employment, and developing such enterprises is a key policy concern in most countries. But ...

There is little doubt that private sector development is important for development, and that enabling the poor to become and succeed as entrepreneurs ...

The book concludes with a chapter by Åse Berit Grødeland that deals with the ways in which negative consequences of reform and ...

A two-stage, two-player non-cooperative game model is developed under an irreversible capital investment assumption. The main aim is to predict ...