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Law enforcement and illegal markets: Evidence from the regulation of junkyards in BrazilI describe how monitoring and harsher law enforcement reduce the expected economic benefits of crime...
Law enforcement Crime RegulationJournal Article
Local governance quality and law compliance: The case of Mozambican firmsIn sub-Saharan Africa, many micro and small enterprises do not (or at least only partially) comply with official rules and regulations...
Governance Transparency LawWorking Paper
The legal basis for affirmative action in IndiaThe affirmative action policy in India came into practice because of the generations of struggle undergone by the untouchable castes and other backward classes, who were historically excluded from education and administration...
Affirmative action Reservation IndiaWorking Paper
Legal opacity, narcotics laws, and drug seizuresWe show that legal opacity is a strong factor in drug trafficking. We develop a new framework that illustrates how legal opacity influences countries’ seizure rates...
Drug trafficking Illicit financial flows LawWorking Paper
Local governance quality and law compliance: The case of Mozambican firmsUsing panel data of manufacturing enterprises in Mozambique between 2012 and 2017, we investigate how changes in perceived quality of governance are related to firms’ law compliance...
Governance Transparency LawBook Chapter
Local content law and practice: The case of GhanaFrom the book: Mining for Change
Local content Law Oil and gasWorking Paper
Local content law and practice: The case of the oil and gas industry in GhanaLocal content and local participation policy and legislation have come to stay in Ghana’s oil and gas industry...
Local content Law Oil and gasBook Chapter
Gender, Islam, and lawFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Courts Ethnography GenderWorking Paper
Gender, Islam, and lawThis paper considers arguments about Islam and women’s welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts...
Courts Ethnography GenderWorking Paper
The legal configuration of hydrocarbon infrastructureThe United States’ greenhouse gas mitigation strategy decentralizes mitigation responsibility to the states and states have primary regulatory jurisdiction over electrical power utilities...
Electric utilities LawBlog
From the Editor's Desk (June-July 2012)
Tony Addison I started writing this ‘From the Editor’s Desk’ in Accra, to the sound of an African drum band, preparing for a ceremony to mark the launch of the joint University of Ghana-UNU-WIDER Research and Post-Graduate Teaching ...
Informal sector Environment and economic development Economic developmentWorking Paper
Security of Property Rights for Whom?Recent research regarding property rights and economic development often treats property rights security in a country as homogeneous, although protecting the private entitlements of some can entail preventing others from claiming and controlling thos...
Equality and inequality Law MinoritiesBook Chapter
Financial Sector Development and Growth: The Chinese ExperienceFrom the book: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development
Capital market Economic development Financial institutionsBook
Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and PoliciesThe concepts of formal and informal remain central to the theory and practice of development more than half a century after they were introduced into the debate...
Economic development Informal sector LawBook
Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and PoliciesThe concepts of formal and informal remain central to the theory and practice of development more than half a century after they were introduced into the debate...
Economic development Informal sector Law