This article investigates the relationship between migrants' destination choices and the formal labor market access afforded by multiple potential host countries in the context of the EU's eastward enlargement. We use an index of labor market access laws combined with data on migration from new...

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There is a common assumption that when sustainable forest management (SFM) is not practised the reasons are usually a lack of knowledge or lack of training in applying those techniques. We trace the intermittent development of techniques for SFM in the tropical rain forest of Guyana (South...

This briefing paper is organised with the following sections:1. FDI arrangements for investment, milling, training, proportion of foreign staff2. Unregistered and unapproved changes in ownership structure of the Asian companies/trading of logging concessions3. Illegal renting and managerial...

Some of the consequences of the revision of Guyana's Mining Act in 1989 that was intended to open up access to international mining companies while safeguarding national mining interests are examined. However, a perverse outcome of the revision was that landlordism or rentier practices in the...

New initiatives are under way to improve governance, including guidelines from supervisory standard-setting bodies such as the Basel Committee on banking supervision. These initiatives should help, but more is needed to change board culture and behavior. Financial supervisors have an important...