Some countries fail to ensure that their citizens and businesses make an appropriate contribution to the financing of public tasks. But not all countries with a low tax ratio automatically fall into this category. This paper presents an approach to bridge the gap between probabilistic statements...

Over the past few years addressing state fragility in the third world has become an important priority in international development cooperation. However, it seems that the international donor community has so far not been able to develop adequate instruments for dealing with the problems posed...

Some countries fail to ensure that their citizens and businesses make an appropriate contribution to the financing of public tasks. But not all countries with a low tax ratio automatically fall into this category. This paper presents an approach to bridge the gap between probabilistic statements...

The so called resource curse, the fact that countries rich in natural resources often show lower rates of economic growth compared to resource-poor countries, is commonly attributed to the low quality of governance in resource-rich countries. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative...

The World Bank is reviewing its system for suspending and debarring contractors (known formally as the World Bank sanctions system). The system is used to suspend and debar contractors that have engaged in fraud or corruption (and other enumerated bad acts) related to Bank-financed projects....

As is the case with several other developing countries which grew rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s, Thailand was largely influenced by neoliberalism. This essay discusses neoliberalism, its influence on Thailand, and the role that neoliberalism played in the subsequent Asian financial crisis....

This article proposes a conceptual foundation for the field of international tax law. The article refers to this foundation as the institutional competence of nations in global economic development. A nation's institutional competence is its discretion to make decisions in pursuit of our...

Since the mid-1990s, Ireland has been significantly increasing its bilateral and EU framework financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority. The majority of such aid falls under the direct state-to-state aid and emergency/humanitarian assistance programmes. This chapter first examines direct...

This paper explores the economic impacts of Korean unification on North and South Korea. It presents a new consistent database on macroeconomic, sectoral and trade data, and an input output table for the North Korean economy, and then incorporates it in a global intertemporal multi-sector...

This paper examines the effects of improvements in infrastrucutre on sectoral growth andfirm-level investment, focusing on six Latin American countries. Exploiting theheterogeneity in the quality of infrastructure across countries and the intrinsic variation inthe dependence of sectors on...