What do we know about the politics of corporate governance in emerging markets? While the state-level institutions have been amply explored, firm-level dynamics remain under-theorized. Complementing the orthodox emphasis on external finance as causal force behind the adoption of “minority...

Fifty years ago, Punjab embarked on its famous Green Revolution, leading the rest of India in that innovation, and becoming the country's breadbasket. Now its economy and society are struggling by relative, and sometimes even absolute, measures. Using the original Green Revolution as a...

West Bengal and Kerala are often juxtaposed with each other under a common communist identity in most scholarly and policy discourse. In this paper, we deconstruct these linkages by looking at data revealed by the election results in the two states in last five decades. In light of our...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an effective means of attracting productive capital required for economic growth and development. Developing countries, however, should also look inside and mobilize inactive domestic capital they are sitting on. The leader's task in every developing country is...

The institution for protection of whistleblower rights plays a key role in the effectiveness of systemic anti-corruption flight. The pandemic made the issue of protection of whistleblowers, disclosing facts of corruption and other wrongful acts, even more evident

From the day of issuing of Executive Order No.204 of May 7, 2018 of the President of the Russian Federation “On National Goals and Strategic Objectives of the Development of the Russian Federation in the Period till 2024” (hereinafter, the Executive Order No.204) and till the end of 2018,...

Modern production and supply chains bring together various stages of value creation worldwide. Currently, due to development of digitalization, the increasing widespread and application of modern ICTs (robots, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, the Internet of things, etc.)...

In this paper, we explore the effects of historical and contemporary ethnolinguistic diversity on socio-economic development in Afghan provinces. Using a robust regression discontinuity design across historical and contemporary cultural borders, we find that higher levels of contemporary...

Societal theories of trade policy stress the importance of domestic interest groups, whereas statist theories focus on the effects of domestic institutions. Debates over the relative merits of these approaches have been fierce, but little systematic empirical research has been brought to bear on...