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A Guide for Companies: Do No Harm

This report offers a guide for how companies operating in Eastern DRC might undertake due diligence to ensure that they are not contributing to the ongoing conflict.

A Humanitarian Crisis in Need of a Development Solution

In this report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Haiti is discussed.

Afghan Bribery Cost Skyrocketed in 2012

A United Nations report finds that $3.9 billion was spent on bribes in 2012, twice the country's domestic revenue, and 40 percent more than the amount paid in bribes in 2009.

Afghanistan Economic Incentives and Development Initiatives to Reduce Opium Production

This report discusses how to progressively reduce Afghanistan’s dependence on opium by development initiatives and shifting economic incentives toward sustainable legal livelihoods. It identifies responses that can counterbalance the economic advantages of opium.

Afghanistan Strengthening the Economy

This report looks at USAID’s economic growth program that aims to help the Government of Afghanistan create economic policy that is sustainable, transparent and predictable.

An Upside Down View of Governance

Newly published research from the DFID-funded Centre for the Future State titled An Upside Down View of Governance  suggests that donors need to stop viewing the world through the lens of OECD experience, and instead look in a much more open-minded way at what is actually happening in a particular 'fragile' contexts.

Anti-Corruption Regulations in Emerging and Expeditionary Markets: New Markets, New Challenges

This document from RAND explores the difficulties companies face when trying to comply with anti-corruption mandates in foreign markets.

Anti-Corruption Strategies in Fragile Situations

Using the Stresses-Capabilities-Expectations framework, this paper analyzes the possibilities and risks of reform (specifically addressing corruption) in fragile situations.

Beyond Patronage: Ruling Party Cohesion and Authoritarian Stability

Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way explore the patronage dynamics in African politic and argue that institutionalized party patronage is an ineffective source of elite cohesion

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