The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) invites resource-rich countries to voluntarily publish the payments they receive from corporations and open their books to the scrutiny of certified auditors. In ...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries of Southeast Asia. Difference General Method of Moments (GMM) is utilized to take advantage of ...

Despite the importance of firm level training in the MENA region for alleviating the issues of high youth unemployment rates, skills mismatches in the labor market, and the long transition periods between the education and ...

The past decade has seen a push towards rigorous policy evaluation and new, exciting methodologies have evolved to get a better sense of how effective policy interventions are in achieving their desired outcomes. Unfortunately, ...

The first chapter investigates the theoretical and empirical effects of increased law enforcement on the equilibrium level of bribes for the case of Albania during the period of 2005-2010. It centers on "harassment" bribes, ...

Limiting central government debt is a crucial objective of numerous governments around the world and it is often looked to as a way to both increase the financial health of the country and prevent significant economic ...

This paper uses firm-level data from the 2010 World Bank Enterprise Surveys to measure the impact of corruption on firm innovation in Latin American economies. Specifically, the paper studies the effects of bribery on the ...