. 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 …

: extended institutional and governance quality, democracy, voice and accountability, a well functioning system of law and order …, decentralization via the division of power and federalism, larger cabinet size and strengthened civil society. There is also support …

Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …