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The Millennium Development Goals were formalized in the Millennium Declaration, which was endorsed by 189 Heads of State and Government at the United Nations Millennium Summit of 2000. Achieving these Goals through sustainable growth and advances in key areas such as education, health,...
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This document was prepared by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the "Confronting Natural Disasters: A Matter of Development" Seminar held in New Orleans on 25 and 26 March 2000. Vulnerability reduction is a key...
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linking pin between the first two challenges. Governance, accountability and organizational effectiveness are essential for …
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of environment, sustainability, governance, transitions and system innovations. …
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A principal-agent model is formulated to capture the efficiency of cooperatives with a member CEO and cooperatives with an employed outsider as CEO. Results of the model show that the incentive strength regarding the member CEO is stronger compared to that of the outside CEO in order to shift...
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issues of ‘governance’. It argues that in networks for exploration there are good reasons, counter to the thesis of the …
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alternative perspective on the purpose and boundaries of the firm. However, the competence view cannot ignore issues of governance … contribute to the development of theory and empirical research that connects governance and competence perspectives. …
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Moral outrage was the response of the Chinese press, when Cheng Kejie, one of the country's highest officials, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) and former Governor of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was arrested on grounds of corruption on 25...
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indicate that the life cycle and the governance characteristics of farmer cooperatives in China differ from cooperatives in the …
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cooperative the unique efficient governance structure. This is established in a multi-task principal-agent model, capturing that …
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