This paper examines causes and consequences of corruption within the process of economic development. It starts by … reviewing some of the factors that, over the past couple of decades, have transformed corruption from a subject on the sidelines …, the paper analyzes many of the institutional mechanisms that sustain corruption and the impact of corruption on …

increasingly to hydropower generation in recent years because it is renewable energy. However, hydropower is among the most … vector autoregressive model to forecast future hydrological series and evaluate the resulting impact on hydropower projects …

trade to promote hydropower in the South Asia region and quantifies the potential of hydropower development and trade under … alternative scenarios. While South Asia is endowed with large (>350 gigawatts) hydropower potential, only around 20 percent has … the untapped hydropower resources. It also finds that development of hydropower in the region would increase by 2.7 times …

simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the … corruption indices used are based on experts' opinions, which may suffer from perception bias. The present paper attempts to … analysis finds a large, positive effect of regulatory burden on corruption. For the baseline results, the bribery rate is …

competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank …