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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Papua New Guinea

    The Great Timber Heist: The Logging Industry in Papua New Guinea, exposes massive tax evasion and financial misreporting by foreign logging companies, allegedly resulting in nonpayment of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.

  2. Library Resource
    Contested aquaculture development in the protected mangrove forests of the Kapuas estuary, West Kalimantan
    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2014
    Indonesia

    Indonesia comprises more mangroves than any other country, but also exhibits some of the highest mangrove loss rates worldwide. Most of these mangrove losses are caused by aquaculture development. Monetary valuation of the numerous ecosystem services of mangroves may contribute to their conservation.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2014
    South-Eastern Asia, Philippines

    Corruption is a continuing feature of the Philippines’ natural resource sectors. Given keen interest in the country’s REDD+ potential, it is useful to consider corruption risks related to REDD+ from a political economy perspective. This U4 Issue draws on fieldwork from two REDD+ pilot sites to assess current governance and anti-corruption safeguards related to benefit-sharing, land tenure rights for indigenous peoples, and private sector involvement. Many anti-corruption actions are in place in the pilot sites, but they are weakly embedded in social relations at the local level.

  4. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    January, 2014
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, South Africa, Ghana

    Land is a vital resource that sustains livelihoods across Sub-Saharan Africa, but also one that is heavily prone to corruption. Every second citizen in Africa has been affected by land corruption in recent years, according to a study by Transparency International.


  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2014
    India, Southern Asia

    Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply do not get built. This paper disaggregates how parks are built and how they fail. It contextualizes parks in India, followed by a thick case study of an innovative scheme that appears to buck the trend.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014

    The accumulation of decent housing matters both because of the difference it makes to living standards and because of its centrality to economic development. The consequences for living standards are far-reaching. In addition to directly conferring utility, decent housing improves health and enables children to do homework. It frees up women's time and enables them to participate in the labor market. More subtly, a home and its environs affect identity and self-respect.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2014
    Global

    As many as two in three people worldwide believe that ordinary citizens can make a difference in the fight against corruption. Whether it’s taking on an abusive school system, exposing a crooked driving instructor or blocking the re-election of a corrupt mayor, these individuals are demonstrating their power to bring about lasting change in their communities.


  8. Library Resource
    June, 2014

    Modern political economy stresses
    "society's polarization" as a determinant of
    development outcomes. Among the most common dorms of social
    conflict are class polarization, and ethnic polarization. A
    middle class consensus is defined as a high share of income
    for the middle class and a low degree of ethnic
    polarization. A middle class consensus distinguishes
    development successes from failures. A theoretical model

  9. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Nicaragua

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
    and the World Bank introduced the Poverty Reduction Strategy
    Paper (PRSP) process in 1999 to strengthen the poverty
    alleviation focus of their assistance to low-income
    countries. This report reviews Nicaragua s experience with
    the PRSP process, focusing on the effectiveness of IMF and
    World Bank support to the process and the extent to which
    the two institutions lending and non-lending activities in

  10. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Global

    In July 2001, the extractive industries
    review (EIR) was initiated with the appointment of Dr. Emil
    Salim, former Minister of the Environment for Indonesia, as
    eminent person to the review. The EIR was designed to engage
    all stakeholders-governments, nongovernmental organizations
    (NGOs), indigenous peoples' organizations, affected
    communities and community-based organizations, labor unions,
    industry, academia, international organizations, and the

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