Are victims of human rights abuses better off with or without economic sanctions targeted at their perpetrators? We …

Financial sanctions, which aim to economically hurt a target by restricting its access to financial assets and markets … offer secrecy ('tax havens') undermine sanctions by hiding ownership information, so far data limitations have prevented a … findings confirm that target countries evade sanctions by moving large portions of their funds from sanctioning countries to …

The paper analyses the 20-year experience with transition in the SEE countries in a comparative framework, illustrating … 1989 to implement a swift transition to a market economy. The paper recalls the initial conditions in the SEE region in … 1989, macroeconomic performance and progress achieved in the various transition-related economic reforms. The international …

Why do some states, with foreign assistance, transition from 'fragile' to 'robust?' Scholars in state-building have …