Caralee McLiesh, Simeon Djankov
Doing Business 2004 is the very first of a series of reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. To document the regulation of business and investigate the effect of regulation on such economic outcomes as productivity, unemployment, growth, pove...
Shakeel Mahmood
In new democracies like Bangladesh code of conduct, the ethics and issues of conflict of interest have not been accorded a high priority for legislative and administrative reforms. To discuss the role of public administration in Bangladesh and recommends measures to be adopted to prevent corruption ...
Chong Ju Choi, Soo Hee Lee, Jai Boem Kim
Jon S.T. Quah
Can corruption be combatted? Yes, but only under certain circumstances! That appears to be the experience of Asian countries where corruption is ubiquitous with the exception of Singapore--a that proved to be the only success story with a strong political leadership and better pay sales. Can this ex...
Adrian Leftwich
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Atul Kohli, ‘State, society and development’, in: Ira Katnelson & Helen V. Milner (eds), Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), p. 117. 2. Dani Rodrik, ‘Growth strategies’, in: Philippe Aghion & Ste...
James Acheson
The primary objective of this volume is to begin to assess the degree to which the ideas of institutional economics can be applied to societies in the Third World. They discuss a wide variety of institutions from this perspective, including family budgets, revolving credit institutions in Bangladesh...
Colin Knox
Abstract Bangladesh has had a troubled political history since gaining independence in 1971 and is also beleaguered by poverty and natural environmental disasters. In particular however, corruption is blighting its prospects for economic growth, undermining the rule of law and damaging the legitimac...
Habib Zafarullah, Noore Alam Siddiquee
Pranab Kumar Panday
This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the power decentralisation process at the local level in Bangladesh. More specifically, this paper intends to explore whether or not the much needed autonomy has been built into the decentralisation process. The paper is basically based on the rev...
Zulfiquer Ali Haider, Mingzhi Liu, Yefeng Wang, Ying Zhang
Fahad Khalil, Jacques Lawarrée, Sungho Yun
Both bribery and extortion weaken the power of incentives, but there is a trade-off in fighting the two because rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. Which is the worse evil? A fear of inducing extortion may make it optimal to tolerate bribery, but ext...
Mashrur Mustaque Khan, Mashfique Ibne Akbar
Political risk, like all other risks, has an adverse effect on any economy. Even though other forms of risk, such as economic risk and financial risk have been studied quite extensively, political risk has not received much attention owing primarily to lack of data. The current paper attempts to stu...
Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
Purpose This paper aims to examine accountability arrangements in Bangladesh and to identify strengths and weaknesses, as well as potentials for improvement. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on review and analysis of published documents and data and information obtained on field visits...
Fara Azmat, Ken Coghill
‘Good governance’ is increasingly regarded as pivotal to development in developing countries. The six indicators recognized as the most effective measurement tools of ‘good governance’ across the world are: voice and accountability; political stability and absence of violence; government effectivene...
Md. Ashiqur Rahman