The five countries in Central Asia, namely Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, are landlocked and therefore rely critically on aviation for passenger travel and express cargo logistics. However, despite substantial growth in the past decade, the aviation market in...

Ökonomisierung ist ein Kampfbegriff, um den in der jüngsten Zeitgeschichte Debatten über die Bedeutung des Ökonomischen in politischen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Zusammenhängen kreisten. Positiv bezeichnet Ökonomisierung etwa die notwendige Anpassung an zunehmend globalisierte...

Whether demands for bribes for particular government services are associated with expedited or delayed policy implementation underlies debates around the role of corruption in private sector development. The “grease the wheels” hypothesis, which contends that bribes act as speed money,...