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The Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress, Priorities and IDB Support for their Implementation
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …
The Millennium Development Goals were formalized in the Millennium Declaration, which was endorsed by 189 Heads of State and Government at the United Nations Millennium Summit of 2000. Achieving these Goals through sustainable growth and advances in key areas such as education, health,...
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A Matter of Development: How to Reduce Vulnerability in the Face of Natural Disasters
America, Economic Commission for Latin; Caribbean, the - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2000
This document was prepared by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the "Confronting Natural Disasters: A Matter of Development" Seminar held in New Orleans on 25 and 26 March 2000. Vulnerability reduction is a key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216215
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Measuring corruption: perception surveys or victimization surveys?
Roca, Thomas - HAL - 2011
While methodologies and survey techniques recorded progress over the years, corruption measurement remains a many-headed monster. Since 2003 and the first publication of Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer, researchers have access to population's feeling about the corruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323507
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Resilience of European farms under different CAP scenarios
Polman, Nico B.P.; Peerlings, Jack H.M.; Slangen, Louis H.G. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
The upcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy will put pressure on agricultural incomes and will cause more price volatility and income risk for farms in the EU. This raises the question if and how farms will survive these disturbances. Farms are able to survive only if they respond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324323
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Characteristics of resources and the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services in Germany: the cases of fruit tree meadows and wolf protection
Thiel, Andreas; Schleyer, Christian; Plieninger, Tobias - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
Work on common pool resources has paid scant attention to the role of properties of natural resources for the way their provision is governed. This paper scrutinizes determinants of institutions that regulate the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Two cases of maintaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326448
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Different tiers of government in port governance: some general remarks on the institutional geography of ports in Europe and Canada
Debrie, Jean - HAL - 2010
For the last thirty years, port governance has been marked by a new level of complexity which has resulted in the … modes of governance and is now attempting to explain how they are linked to port performance Models of port governance … on public decision-making and the institutional models applied in port governance in 7 European countries and Canada. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278323
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Assessing the World Bank's influence on the good governance paradigm
Diarra, Gaoussou; Plane, Patrick - HAL - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278331
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Public Debt Accumulation and Institutional Quality: Can Corruption Improve Welfare?
Faure, Pierre-Henri - HAL - 2009
We explore the consequences of bad governance and corruption for public debt and welfare in a model of policymaking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278335
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Co-ordination and networks at sub-regional level: how programmes can meet rural needs
Mantino, Francesco; Tarangioli, Serena; Tudini, Lucia - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Main objective of this paper is focusing on local institutions and their ability to effectively respond to local needs in designing and implementing rural development policies. The main unit of analysis is the Province of Grosseto. In this area a great number of public national and regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693192
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Rural development policy delivery and governance in Greece
Papadopoulou, Eleni; Christos, Papalexiou; Hasanagas, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
The main purpose of this research is focused on understanding the politico-administrative system and structure of rural policy implementation in the third programming period (2000-2006). Case studies have been conducted for selected measures of the Greek Rural Development Programme (RDP) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693196