Quantifying corruption at a subnational level

A Study on the Causes of Corruption Control at the Macro Level Based on Fuzzy Logic

Corruption as one of the realities of today's society has had unprecedented growth in the administrative, political and economic systems of the world and according to the International Transparency Institute, no region or country in the world is immune to corruption. In this article, with theoretical speculations, we are looking for a comparative study of the necessary and sufficient conditions...

Maternal mortality estimation at the subnational level: a model-based method with an application to Bangladesh.

OBJECTIVE To provide a model-based method of estimating maternal mortality at the subnational level and illustrate its use in estimating maternal mortality rates (MMrates) and maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) in all 64 districts of Bangladesh. METHODS Knowing that mortality is more pronounced among the poorer segments of a population, in rural areas and in areas with poor availability and uti...

Corruption and Political Interest: Empirical Evidence at the Micro Level

The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the effects of political interest on corruption despite the interesting potential of this link. We address these deficiencies by analyzing a cross-section of indivi...

The Effects of Temperature on Political Violence: Global Evidence at the Subnational Level

A number of studies have demonstrated an empirical relationship between higher ambient temperatures and substate violence, which have been extrapolated to make predictions about the security implications of climate change. This literature rests on the untested assumption that the mechanism behind the temperature-conflict link is that disruption of agricultural production provokes local violence...

Private Infrastructure Investment at the Subnational Level: Challenges in Emerging Economies