Disagreements over business deals, land boundaries, or loan non-repayment are very common sources of disputes, and courts are congested in developing countries. We evaluate the effects of the government introducing formal "village courts" (VCs) in rural Bangladesh using a randomized controlled...

The author examines the growth of community dispute resolution in the 1980’s and examines whether larger budgets and increasing institutionalization/alliances with civil and criminal courts is a “striking symbol of success” or a “betrayal of the community empowerment ideology that...

The aim of this article is to analyze the utilization of alternative approaches for resolving tax disputes across various countries worldwide in order to evaluate the feasibility of introducing such approaches in Ukraine. It provides an overview of mediation, which is considered one of the most...