Congratulations to Jenny Piesse and Allan Webster who have just had their paper “Are Foreign-Owned Firms More Likely to Pay Bribes than Domestic Ones? Evidence from Emerging Markets” published in World Development, a 3* journal.
(January 2018, World Development 101:142-161)











NIHR Insight South West Central Conference 2026 at Bournemouth University
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BU geography student’s undergraduate dissertation published in international journal
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