Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource wealth. The paper ...

There is an ongoing debate in Bangladesh in civil society and among policymakers, whether the country should move from a highly centralised unitary state ...

The world economy has experienced an enormous growth the past 50 years. Yet the gap between the richest and the poorest countries has increased. There ...

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This study analyses the link between social development and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. Previous empirical studies conflict ...

Fredskorpset, or FK Norway, is one of the instruments for Norwegian development aid support to civil society in developing countries. It promotes mutual ...

Recent years have seen a growing interest among donors on taxation in developing countries. This reflects a concern for domestic revenue mobilisation ...

How can donors strengthen tax systems in developing countries? By complementing their technical approach with measures to build a taxpayer culture, and challenging development countries to take the lead, says CMI researcher Odd-Helge Fjeldstad.

Legislation prohibiting foreign bribery has been enacted and enforced by several countries, notably the United States and the United Kingdom, but its ...

While once considered solely a concern of law enforcement agencies; money laundering, tax evasion and secrecy jurisdictions are now perceived as important ...

Many low income countries face a trilemma with respect to taxation: (1) There is an urgent and obvious need for more revenues to enable resource poor ...

Foreign aid is of critical importance for achieving the goal of providing basic social services to all mankind by 2015. If strategies for funding health ...

Introduction: The new politics of taxation and accountability in developing countries Lise Rakner a

Recent years have seen a growing interest among donors on taxation in developing countries. This reflects a concern for domestic revenue mobilization ...

This paper analyzes the impact of liberalization of trade in producer services, focusing on financial services, telecommunications and transport. The ...

This Brief reviews recent research on transition countries which suggests, conceptually and empirically, that lobbying is not only more prevalent in non–developed ...

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

Liberalisation of trade in producer services - the impact on developing countries Hildegunn Kyvik N

This article presents the results of a qualitative study of the uses and abuses of travel compensation in the state administrations of three developing ...

Information provided by insiders can contribute to the goal of reducing illicit capital flight from developing countries. It helps address one of the ...