"The purpose of this book is to explore, in a broad perspective, how corruption affects economic growth and environmental protection. Other aspects of development, such as education and inequality in entitlements to natural resources, will also be considered within the context of the main...

Lax monetary policy in the United States has been pointed out as one of the responsible factors behind the recent global crisis. Similar loose monetary conditions also prevailed in many European countries before the crisis and were argued to be among the accommodating factors behind the run-up...

The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty reduction between 2000 and 2007 and this occurred in concomitance with significant increases in private and public transfers to households. The paper assesses the relative...