Non-transparency is a term given in this paper to a set of government policies that increase the risk and uncertainty … corruption, unstable economic policies, weak and poorly enforced property rights, and inefficient government institutions. Our … empirical analysis shows that the degree of non-transparency is an important factor in a country's attractiveness to foreign …

-rich countries. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was founded in 2003 to address this problem through … study shows in a panel of 81 countries that joining the EITI increases the ratio of FDI inflows to GDP on average by around …

the Rest of the World -- 7 Enforcement of Food Standards in China-Impact of the State-Led Stakeholder Model of Corporate …

resource-rich countries, the decision of host governments to expropriate these investments, and the level of corruption. Higher … production. Moreover, resource production leads to high levels of corruption. Our theoretical results are confirmed by … estimations of a simultaneous equation model for 50 resource-rich countries in which we endogenize expropriation risk, corruption …