Augusto Lopez-Claros & Valeria Perotti The transformation of Japan into a modern economy at the end of the 19th century is a tale of culture…
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Augusto Lopez-Claros & Valeria Perotti The transformation of Japan into a modern economy at the end of the 19th century is a tale of culture…
In our earlier blogs on corruption we have looked at the causes and consequences of corruption within the process of economic development. In our last blog,…
The 2008-2009 global financial crisis led to a number of large–scale government interventions across the world. These included massive provisions of liquidity, the takeover of…
Having looked at some of the ways in which corruption damages the social and institutional fabric of a country, we now turn to reform options…
In an earlier blog post, we commented on the sources of corruption, the factors that have turned it into a powerful obstacle to sustainable economic…
In a previous blog we discussed the factors that have pushed issues of corruption to the centre of policy debates about sound economic management. A…
For those of us who have had an interest in corruption for much of our careers, there is little doubt that sometime in the late…
Suppose that one were to divide the countries included in the latest Doing Business report into two groups. Call the first group (made up of…
There are many ways to think about income inequality. One can, for instance, look at it within the boundaries of a particular country and ask…
Across the world, gender inequalities are large and persistent. We have inequalities in basic human rights, in control over economic resources (land, finance, information, earnings…