Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Paws for Thought: Reflections on the First Four Years of Lakeside Care Farm -- Chapter 3: Fear, fiction and facts: Animals in outdoor learning environments -- Chapter 4: Learning About the World to Save the World: How learning from animals may provide a...

The aim of this paper is to explore under which conditions institutional quality leads to lower corruption. A model of a simple economy where firms both chose between bribing or not bribing bureaucrats to avoid costs and between entering the official or unofficial economy shows that the effects...

This paper tries to uncover some of the hidden factors behind poor public service delivery in the Dominican Republic. By looking at three sector cases, education, health and electricity, it is possible to observe that in this setting of low quality of public services the "middle class" is opting...