institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating … and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular … recommends the need for restoring confidence, transforming institutions(procedures), providing specialized assistance, acting …

The government's ability to deliver inclusive growth crucially depends on the quality of governance. This paper reviews … the linkages between governance and inclusive growth, and key policies to improve governance. The policies include (1 … discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty …