are less participating to global governance (in the United Nations, in the World Trade Organization and the Bretton …

, with special emphasis on the role of governance. Based on the existing literature, we have categorized what types of … governance institutions are more detrimental to entrepreneurial investments. We have then estimated a simultaneous model of … private investment and governance quality where economic policies concurrently explain both variables. Our empirical results …

What does governance mean for the World Bank and to what extent does the organization succeed in diffusing the paradigm … worldwide? The World Bank primarily focused on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s, and progressively moved to its … knowledge on this specific issue. The potential influence of the World Bank’s main governance indicators: Country Policy and …

This study is a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the linkages between governance, institutions, and regional … infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and institutions are crucial for regional infrastructure development … : every one point improvement in governance results in a 1 to 1.5 point rise in regional infrastructure. Countries (and …

This paper seeks to explore the relationship between economic growth and governance performance in Asian developing …, the state of governance in Asia is not stellar by international comparison. Indeed, a majority of these countries seem to … suffer from a governance deficit. Second, contrary to our expectation, data do not suggest any strong positive link between …

The primary objective of this paper is to find whether or not the governance and institutions matter for enhancing … Asias trade. In this study, we have performed a comprehensive empirical analysis of the linkages between governance and … trade at the Asian subregional level. Our results indicate that all individual governance indicators except regulatory …

In this paper we empirically discuss whether or not external debt affects country’s governance. Indeed, indebted … countries need some political governance reforms in order to send out a positive signal to international financial community and … costs to political governance. Our study focuses on the period 1985-2011 and spans 103 developing countries. To deal with …

consumption of richer households by 6.1 to 9.2 percent. We also find suggestive evidence that governance matters in the …

properly designed - leniency may simultaneously provide an effective governance mechanism for occasional sequential illegal …