The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical and experimental methods. Chapter 1 examines corruption (anti-social...

In relation to the adoption and adaptation of IFRS in Africa, some recommendations have been proposed by Owolabi and Iyoha (Owolabi and Iyoha, Adopting International Financial Reporting Standards in Africa: Benefits, Prospects and Challenges): That the education, sensitization, and communication...

This paper examines the rise of cartel enforcement in Europe, North America, and the Rest of the World (ROW) over the past 25 years in greater detail and with more indicators than previous publications. I find that in the past decade the ROW antitrust authorities have made extraordinarily rapid...

It has become increasingly fashionable for many countries especially those in the developing world to include extensive Bills of Rights in their constitutions. The inclusion of socio-economic rights in such Bills of Rights has also been on the increase. While the developing world, particularly...

This volume challenges global leaders and citizenry to do more in order to resource the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) and its 17 interwoven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Starting from the concept ‘we cannot manage what we cannot measure’, the...