Community development funds drawing from resource revenues are increasingly used to address issues of revenue distribution and local development in resource ...

We investigate donor-beneficiary relationships in participatory development programs, where (i) communities are heterogeneous and dominated by the local ...

In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, particularly ...

The effect of government decentralization on corruption is theoretically ambiguous. On the one hand, bringing government closer to the people could increase ...

Customary authority can provide a source of resistance to corruption and capture of resources in community-driven development ? but it can also be part ...

Afghanistan is entering the most critical period since the overthrow of Taliban back in 2001. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced ...

Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences ...

The political economies of many developing countries are characterised by varying degrees of patronage and state capture, a reality that has far-reaching ...

This paper develops a bioeconomic model for two Barents Sea fisheries that attempts to capture the predator-prey relationships between cod and capelin, ...

The Afghan conflict is driven by the impact and behaviour of international troops as well as the illegitimacy of the Afghan government.

The main objective of this project is to analyse opportunities for diversification of the Angolan economy. In Angola, production, exports and government ...

Corruption and other factors can influence deforestation in contradictory ways. For the purpose of country-level implementation of REDD+, donors should ...

Channing Arndt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen and the leader of the climate change pillar at the World Institute for Development Economics Research. He will present recent approaches developed for analyzing the implications of climate change and appropriate policy responses.

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

Formal institutions are central actors in natural resource governance decisions and a key arena in which policies, laws and regulations ranging from forest ...

A diversity of opinion, theory, and conceptual approaches characterizes discussion of population and environment relationships among social scientists. ...

Law enforcement agencies monitor and enforce laws that protect landscapes, seascapes, and the species that inhabit them. Corruption helps violators circumvent ...

About half of tropical deforestation is commonly explained by the expansion of traditional agriculture (shifting cultivation). This article first questions ...

Virtually all peasant household models assume efficient allocation of household productive resources between different household activities. In an African ...

When people move between positions as regulator or legislators and private companies within the same sector this can lead to conflicts of interest, regulatory ...