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Environmental Technology Transfer in a FDI Regime A Developing Country Perspective
One, Author; Two, Author; Thirdone, U. - EconWPA - 2002
investment may come to a region or country where environment protection norms are less strict. Investors may be induced to … transient nature, the phasing out of such a pollution haven regime is typically dependent upon the active institutional … alternative production possibilities that help design prudent environmental policy regime. Also it searches for the right kind of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408033
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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004
investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that governance is key to the business environment and … of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private … the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions for the climate of business operation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077053
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Evaluating the Contributions of Regional Trade Agreements to Governance of Services Trade
Stephenson, Sherry; Robert, Maryse - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653138
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Evaluating the Contributions of Regional Trade Agreements to Governance of Services Trade
Stephenson, Sherry; Robert, Maryse - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653166
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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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Bangladesh Vision 2021
East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER); The … - 2012
Bangladesh came into being following more than two decades of political struggle culminating in the war of independence in 1971. This struggle was inspired by a vision for a democratic, non-communal, prosperous, and equitable society. After 15 years of parliamentary democracy, it is reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647688
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Bangladesh Vision 2021
East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER); The … - 2012
Bangladesh came into being following more than two decades of political struggle culminating in the war of independence in 1971. This struggle was inspired by a vision for a democratic, non-communal, prosperous, and equitable society. After 15 years of parliamentary democracy, it is reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647708
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Policy Reforms and Institutional Weakness : Closing The Gap.
Llanto, Gilberto M.; Gonzalez, Eduardo T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The promise and potential of the Philippine economy has remained unrealized notwithstanding the countrys talented labor force, skilled professionals and relatively abundant resources. What ails the Philippines? This paper argues that the incompetence and downright corruption of Philippine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363275
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Keeping Dictators Honest : the Role of Population Concentration
Doy, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and … threat to a dictatorship, inducing it to yield to more redistribution and better governance. We bring this centered concept …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363276
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The State of Local Governance and Public Services in the Decentralized Indonesia in 2006 : Findings from the Governance and Decentralization Survey 2 (GDS2)
Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The Governance and Decentralization Survey (GDS) aims to evaluate the implementation of local governance and … Governance Reform Project (ILGRP), and Urban Sector Development and Reform Program (USDRP), which were accommodated in the GDS2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363302