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This Paper presents a survey of the literature on trade liberalization and globalization. The questions are why trade liberalization occurred, why trade liberalization took the form of reciprocity combined with multilateralism, why the liberalization allows for protectionist policies, and why...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The increasing demands and expectations placed upon the Philippine bureaucracy by a redemocratizing society are further amplified by the strengthening of global institutional pressures emanating from organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation....
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deal with poor governance. We find that these various aspects of market familiarity, which can interact together, are …
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This Paper presents theory and evidence on the relationship between inequality and institutional quality. We exhibit a model in which the two dynamically reinforce each other and set to test this relationship with a broad array of institutional measures. We establish the double causality between...
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reciprocal exchange to lifetime employment, from relational governance to corruption/collusion. We study how agents …
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This paper aims to ascertain the effects of convergence in governance on investment decisions among a sample of 43 … governance are considered to be areas of higher investment, as a result of further integration and collaborative action among … process and, to a large extent, this is about institutional transformation. Good governance institutions are an assurance to …
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, 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 …
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