Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

Drawing on newly published macroeconomic statistics, this paper estimates the amount of
household wealth owned by each country in offshore tax havens. The equivalent of 10% of …

Illicit financial flows (IFFs) constitute a major challenge for development in low‐income
countries, as domestic resource mobilization is imperative for providing crucial public …

Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-
dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial …

Equity issues have long been debated within international climate politics, focused on fairly
distributing reductions in territorial emissions and fossil fuel consumption. There is a growing …

Natural resources like oil and minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the
world. Petrocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend resource money on weapons and …

Recent development in the resource curse literature highlights that one of the channels
through which the curse may occur is the tendency of resource wealth to weaken …

In this paper we combine household surveys, national accounts, income tax data and wealth
data in order to estimate income concentration in the Middle East for the period 1990–2016 …

Illicit financial flows constitute a global phenomenon of massive but uncertain scale, which
erodes government revenues and drives corruption in countries rich and poor. In 2015, the …

This article argues that the concept of state capture helps to structure our understanding of
patterns of grand corruption seen around the world in varied contexts, and increasingly even …