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Working Paper

Community-driven reconstruction (CDR) is an approach to post-war reconstruction that gives discretion to local community councils in establishing priorities and overseeing the implementation of reconstruction and development activities...

Working Paper

The United Kingdom’s (UK) property markets are thought to be a common destination for corrupt and criminal assets and money laundering, with investment often through offshore shell companies...

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In an environment with extensive corruption where much of the population evades paying their full taxes due, we tackle the question of optimal taxation when constituencies with opposing objectives (the poor and the rich) push tax policy in different ...

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Extractive industries are spread across mining of metal and minerals, oil and gas, among others...

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development

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This paper empirically investigates the link between the level of government revenue per capita and six indicators of quality of governance in an unbalanced panel data set consisting of all countries in the world (217) using data from 1980 to 2020...

Blog

Does foreign aid end up in the pockets of elites instead of contributing to inclusive economic development?...

Blog

by Johnny Flentø
April 2022

' I say to the Russian oligarchs and the corrupt leaders who bilked billions of dollars off this violent regime: no more… We are coming for your ill-begotten gains.' – Joe Biden at the 1 March 2022, State of the Union Address One...

Blog

In many countries, news of an oil discovery or the award of an exploration license is rarely greeted with enthusiasm by the general public...

Working Paper

While the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on lives and livelihoods are well understood, we know little about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption...

Working Paper

This second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource...

Working Paper

This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5–7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petrole...

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We show that the incorporation of offshore entities increases when oil and gas exploration licences are awarded...

Seminar

Working Paper

It is widely believed that clientelism—the giving of material goods in return for electoral support—is associated with poorer development outcomes...