. Furthermore, misplaced belief in a market economy where morals and ethics play no role paved the way to serious lapses in …, a failure due, at least in Iceland, to a combination of mistakes, incompetence and what can only be called corruption …

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …

Education has been one of the key determinants of economic growth around the world since 1965. In this paper, we …

This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and … protection, corruption, and income inequality. The cross-sectional data show, moreover, that the share of the primary sector in …