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environment since around 1965. Seminal results are his notion of environmental functions (WWF, 1969), his Ph.D. thesis “New …
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The Stern Review (2006) on the economics of climate change presented a cost estimate of perhaps even 20% of national income and subsequently was criticized by Weitzman and Nordhaus and others in a discussion that centered on the use of the calculus of variations and the choice of the proper rate...
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Tinbergen & Hueting (1991) provide an approach to the economics of ecological survival that still is unsurpassed. Various “green GDPs” have been proposed such as ISEW, Ecological Footprint, Genuine Savings and Genuine Progress Indicator, and lately there is an increased interest in happiness...
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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 …
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We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … framework and a set of hypotheses, and then test them econometrically. The findings suggest that good governance and …
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Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the …
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Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which … of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …
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national governance have been unexplored. This paper summarises the results of the Business Environment and Enterprise … corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and … Performance Survey (BEEPS) across 20 transition economies, providing an assessment of governance and corruption from the …
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Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … institutions, iii) a challenge within public sectors, and, iv) divorced from global governance or security issues - seen as … governance constraints, and corruption in particular, is a key determinant of a country's global competitiveness. These findings …
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The research in this paper is to be focused on examining governance and enterprise restructuring in Southeast Europe … Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has governance and enterprise restructuring as basic indicator of economic transition and … defines it as effective corporate governance and corporate control exercised through domestic financial institutions and …
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