evidence that the institutional environment in which reform progress takes place is an important determinant for successful … telecommunications efficiency and provides empirical results for the impact of institutions on reform outcomes. It provides significant … reform. This study uses the stochastic distance function approach to capture the role of institutions in explaining …

guidance on why and how economic policy reform occurs and how to develop institutional mechanisms that enable governments to … economics and politics—of why and how policy reform takes place—remains relatively unexplored territory. This is especially so … an analytical survey of economic policy reform in Southeast Asia. It ranges across the major policy U-turns and the …

entrepreneurship. I find an increase in self-employment following a reform in urban China that allowed state employees who were renting … mechanisms that might explain how the reform increased entrepreneurship. I find evidence that the reform reduced labor mobility …

alternatives to the official data that are springing up. Although Mr. Ma has accelerated the NBS reform agenda, significant …

This paper studies the interaction between different actors in the policy-making process of fiscal transfer reform in … Colombia. To analyse this reform, we use the “life cycle of reform” framework. In that context, we follow critical phases in … the reform process: planning, dialogue and adoption, and implementation and sustainability stages. This paper shows that …

productivity growth due to technological progress. We conclude that this improvement in the post reform period could be linked to …