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idea that high quality instruction, academic freedom, accountability and transparency should go hand in hand. Agreement … measured in the process of accreditation of higher education institutions? How does greater transparency in the accreditation … institutional accountability or changing institutional behaviour; and hence, what are the standards and implications of federal vs …
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It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is …
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The main objective of this paper is to fill the academic gap regarding the actors and determinants in the approval process of the public budget in Mexico. The research question deals with the analysis of the impact of the partisan and budgetary variables during the budget approval process. This...
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Mid-long term projections of the Stability Programs (SP) are elaborated to simulate the burden each active citizen or each worker will have to bear for financing, via pay-as-you-go, public health care provisions and public pensions. It is worth mentioning that projections in the (SP) are those...
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accumulations of assets, disable accountability of governance, and dilute potential. After an empirical overview of past and present … chapter is the discussion of four institutions of poverty within economies; those are lack of assets, lack of accountability …
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institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating …
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transparency measures is presented. The chapter then concludes with a call for a global compact on governance and anti …A number of popular notions and outright myths on governance and corruption are addressed in this chapter. We … distinguish clearly between governance and anti-corruption, while probing the links between both notions. In so doing we challenge …
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The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments require that water utilities mail drinking water quality reports to their customers annually. The public uses this information; the news of a water quality violation makes a household 21% more likely to purchase bottled water in the following year. We...
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This article reviews experimental evidence on the effects of policies intended to promote behavior by firms that is more socially responsible and less socially irresponsible. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can provide firms with opportunities for profit, but changes are likely to increase...
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Amongst other goals, this paper aims to address complexities and challenges faced by regulators in identifying and assessing risk, problems arising from different perceptions of risk, and solutions aimed at countering problems of risk regulation. It will approach these issues through an...
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