That community forestry is yet to meet its high promises on tackling forest degradation and the pervasive rural poverty cannot be separated from the contexts of political processes and the dynamic of social interactions among the stakeholders involved in the program. This book analyses how few...

We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes. Using panel data from Vietnam we find evidence that households with connections to local government are more likely to be classified as poor, the main determinant of whether...

To understand the mechanisms through which political connections impact firm value and performance, we study how political connections affect connected firms and their peers. Following the announcement of anti-corruption investigations in China, we show that the industry peers of firms connected...