Film: Inside an artisanal oil refinery in the Niger Delta
In this video, an owner explains how a typical artisanal oil refinery works. The rudimentary technology has evolved over time into an industrial-scale phenomenon. There ...
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Making anti-corruption messaging effective: the critical importance of feasibility and targeting
Summary and recording of a SOAS-ACE Webinar on 22 September 2021 A few weeks ago, the SOAS ACE programme hosted a webinar discussion on how ...
The Political Economy of Electricity Reform in Fragile Contexts
The Political Economy of Electricity Reform in Fragile Contexts As part of their SOAS ACE research project, Neil McCulloch, Director of The Policy Practice, spoke ...
Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms
If you’re living in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, your best bet at a high-paying career is probably ‘artisanal refining’ — or, in plain language, ...
SOAS-ACE at the Knowledge Partner talks of the 2021 OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum
On 25 March 2021, SOAS-ACE lead a Knowledge Partner Session at the OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum. The panel proposed a framework donors can ...
Podcast: Corruption and political settlements
Dan Banik speaks with Mushtaq Khan on whether definitions of corruption matter, the relationship between corruption and economic performance, and the impact of efforts to ...
Film: The networked economy of the artisanal oil industry in the Niger Delta
Nigeria’s law and order problem in its oil bearing South-South region is well known. From militancy to pipeline vandalism, law enforcement has been patchy and ...
Watch webinar: Models for tackling Lebanon’s electricity crisis
On 4 February 2021, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in partnership with ...
SOAS-ACE at the Knowledge Partner talks of the 2020 OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum
SOAS-ACE: Feasible anti-corruption strategies - a new approach The SOAS-ACE research framework advocates an alternative, bottom-up and sector-specific approach that aims to engage powerful organisations ...
The #EndSARS movement actually dovetails, very unfortunately and interestingly, into the larger political economy picture of Nigeria
Dr Pallavi Roy (SOAS-ACE) and Dr Jackie Harvey (GI-ACE) discuss the structures of political and economic power in Nigeria and the underlying systems of corruption that ...