Although corruption has attracted researchers' attention for more than 30 years, it remains one of the most significant … political challenges all countries face. Even though corruption measures have improved, they lack reliability and clarity. Two … aspects of corruption are examined in this paper: a) its measurement and b) its effects on the economic performance of 83 …

, measures of democracy, human development, corruption perception index and per capita income, which in turn jointly influence … 2-SLS. Empirically, it has been established that globalization, democracy, human development and low level of corruption …

This paper summarizes and expands the state-of-the-art understanding of the urbanization, development, environment, and … inequality nexus. Economic growth/development, urbanization, and energy/electricity consumption are all highly correlated. While … urbanization may be more evidence of economic progress than a catalyst for economic growth, there is some evidence that poor …

Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average …-quarter has been realized. Estimated welfare gains from relaxing existing height constraints are 5.9% in the developed world and 3 …

This chapter presents MAMS (Maquette for MDG Simulations), a recursive-dynamic CGE model developed at the World Bank …

resultant prosperity. We also emphasize that enforcing regulations is a complex task given corruption, informal markets, and the … inability of citizens to cooperate and form effective lobbies. Preliminary calculations using data from the World Bank show that … growth and in turn benefits from the low pollution content of growth. This also calls for serious exploration of green …

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions within the STIRPAT framework over the period 1971 to … results robustly show an inverted N-shaped relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions in the long-term associated … urbanization tend to reduce CO2 emissions in the long-term. The estimated turning point for the urbanization ratio after which CO2 …