groundwater depletion in drought prone regions. The main objective here is to estimate the costs of groundwater depletion … externalities and examine the costs and benefits from groundwater replenishing mechanisms in different ecological contexts. This …

Graft and corruption is considered to be one of the biggest threat to development. Several studies had shown the … tremendous impact of corruption in the economy. For a number of developing countries, a huge portion of government resources are … aims to contribute to the growing literature of understanding corruption in developing economies and creating the necessary …

We investigate the relationship between corruption and political stability, from both theoretical and empirical … between total corruption and stability. On the empirical side, we find a robust U-shaped pattern between country indices of … corruption perception and various measures of incumbent stability, including historically-observed average tenures of chief …

Stringent regulations coupled with corruption generate and sustain extra legal or informal transactions in the … developing countries. Does trade related reform discourage informal activities and corruption? This paper attempts to analyze … segment. Hence, trade reforms may have conflicting impact on informality and corruption. …

exacerbates ineciency caused by corruption. Though designed to empower the underprivileged, the fate of such credit programs … largely depends on the eciency of the credit delivery system. Corruption often erodes this eciency. Nevertheless, when a … corrupt loan ocial and a borrower interact with symmetric information, credit terms can be so designed that corruption will …

some policy questions that confront China, as a major resource-procuring economy seeking resource security through foreign …