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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 …
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This papers examines the activities and operations of the first publicly listed company in Australia with wildlife conservation as its primary goal. Earth Sanctuaries Ltd (ESL) is the first publicly listed company in Australia with wildlife conservation as its primary goal. Its focus to date is...
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This study draws together and builds on previous research by the Commission on the role of the private sector in the conservation of biodiversity. With more than 60 per cent of Australia's land area under private management, conservation cannot be adequately addressed without private sector...
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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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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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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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