when corruption is too pervasive, and when the origin of tax revenue origin reduces government accountability. Lastly, our …

-based infrastructures on economic development. The results suggest that both mass media and ICT penetration are negatively associated with … corruption. This result holds across both the entire sample (of both developed and developing countries), and only for developing …, lower poverty is robustly associated with higher media (newspaper circulation) penetration …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … a massive trans-border threat while creating high obstacles to sustainable and prospective development, ultimately …

This special issue of the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development builds on a growing, multifaceted research and … policy agenda that advances development perspectives of illicit economies in the Global South. Conventional policy discourses … underdevelopment. Illicit economies frequently drive violence, corruption, exploitation and failures in governance, for example …