Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of clientelism on … development outcomes is lacking. In this paper we examine the relationship between political clientelism, public goods provision …, and governance quality using cross-country panel data for 161 countries for the period 1900-2017. We distinguish between …

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 …