This paper considers the possibility of collective action by the business community to counter corruption in the award … probability of winning the license or contract through bribery. An improvement in the government's formal anti-corruption …

The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China …'s "special characteristics" : (1) the different sources of FDI, where FDI is nearly evenly divided between mostly Organization … tax holidays to foreign direct investment. The authors also explore how productivity spillovers from FDI changed with …

omitted variable issues, the paper finds that output growth in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa does not attract capital …

Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. This paper … argues that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals: firm-specific policy actions that … Africa. Strikingly, the gap between de jure and de facto conditions grows with the formal regulatory burden. The evidence …

, BRICs and South Africa) accounting for more than 80 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions. The analysis deals with …

allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …

supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate …