Notwithstanding the voluminous studies of Hong Kong’s anticorruption experience and the admiration the ICAC has earned from other governments as a model for “institutional engineering,” little is known about how the public in Hong Kong has perceived and responded to corruption. Less clear...

The temporal persistence and geographical prevalence of corruption in the world have provoked a vast amount of research into its causes. Low civil service remuneration, especially in less developed nations, is believed to be an important contributing factor to corruption. The assumption is that...

This article examines a particular type of central mandate in China, the mandate for nationwide across-the-board salary increases in the public sector. The making and implementation of this mandate epitomizes the changes and challenges in intergovernmental relations of a transition economy. Our...

Introduction Gurudas Das and C Joshua Thomas 1. Geo-Economics of BCIM: What should be the basis for Sub-Regional Cooperation? Gurudas Das, Tanuj Mathur, Ujjwal Paul and Subodh Chandra Das 2. Is BCIM-EC beneficial for India? Gurudas Das and Ujjwal Paul 3. BCIM Economic Corridor: A Trade-led...