The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In … the wake of the reform, a number of “tax experts” established themselves in the market, many of them being laid off tax … bureaucrats. We argue that middle-men can undermine the effect of an anti-corruption reform by reducing the uncertainty that firms …

In this paper I argue that reform capacity, defined as the extent to which political institutions facilitate the … bargaining over reform. Specifically, I argue that power sharing is compatible with high reform capacity if policy areas involved … in package deals are all controlled by the central government (or whatever level of government makes the reform), and if …

patterns of change. Using an ongoing case of police reform in Rio de Janeiro, the police pacification units (Unidades de … and further the objectives of reform processes. …

issues associated with other datasets on changes in economic institutions. The results provide a robust support for the claim … regulatory reform is associated with a 0.15 percent increase in growth rate of GDP. …

systems raises several questions. This article reviews a few of them and advocates that the reform of the health sector gets …