From Singapore to South Korea, many countries across Southeast Asia are reclaiming large tracts of coastline to create space for new factories, homes and recreation. The aim is to boost economic prosperity and relieve congestion, but such projects also create environmental problems. To get a...

This study assesses the environmental cost of a large coastal reclamation project in the Philippines. It was undertaken to find out whether such projects generate an overall loss or gain for society as a whole. Such assessments are rarely made for projects of this type. In the past, this has led...

Foreign aid plays an important role in developing countries, but little is empirically known how it affects incentives of recipient bureaucracies. I provide a model and analytic case study to understand the strategic games that donors and bureaucrats play. My findings are broadly consistent with...

This article provides an overview of the reform of water institutions in developing countries in the last three decades focusing on the what, why and how of institutional reform and outlines their implications for policy and research. The review covers four areas: 1) water rights and river basin...

Conventional wisdom suggests that corruption has a negative effect on growth although the mechanisms are subject to debate. We take an alternate approach to challenge this wisdom by testing the economic effects of anti-corruption measures. Using panel data (1999-2016) from 31 provinces in China...