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Bureaucracy and Pro-poor Change
Cheema, Ali; Sayeed, Asad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
, incompetence and corruption have been critical factors in the level of governance declining over time. This paper takes a political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365038
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Making the Politician and the Bureaucrat Deliver - Employment Guarantee in India
Goyal, Ashima - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits. There are still weaknesses in the … examination of the interactions between politicians and bureaucrats, village self-government, and the water economy in India …, imply that an EGS with good incentive properties has the potential to reverse corruption of the executive, and vitalize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365075
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Globalization, Redemocratization and the Philippine Bureaucracy
Tillah, Mirshariff - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365258
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Regulatory Structure for Financial Stability and Development
Goyal, Ashima - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
To understand the appropriate regulatory response to the crisis, we start from the basic market failures that justify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365412
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The Philippine Information and Communication Technology Sector : Evolving Structure and Emerging Policy Issues
Padojinog, Winston Conrad B. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Narrowing the digital divide is an important goal of any ICT policy. It must promote on one hand a high degree of accessibility to the infostructure by promoting competition, interconnection and convergence in the ICT sector. On the other hand, policies must also seek to increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363626
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Social Norms and Cooperation in the Matching Game : A Review
Wicaksono, Teguh Yudo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Some social scientists argue that the widespread of cooperation within societies is the fact that modern economics theory fails to capture. Fukuyama, for example, argues that economics fails to take into account cultural factors affecting individual behaviors (Fukuyama 1995). Trust, as he...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363655
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Extension Delivery System in a Layer and Swine-Based Farming Community : The Case of San Jose, Batangas
Baconguis, Rowena T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Public agricultural extension systems face increasing pressure resulting from diverse demands for services coupled with problems in declining funds. This study explores the role of a municipal agricultural extension system in the development of a robust agriculture-based municipality and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363748
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On the Segmentation of Markets
Jacquet, Nicolas L.; Tan, Serene - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper endogenizes the market structure of an economy with heterogeneous agents who want to form bilateral matches in the presence of search frictions and when utility is non-transferable. We depart from standard matching models where all agents are assumed to be in a unique meeting place by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365066
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Knowledge Flow in East Asia and Beyond
Hu, Albert Guangzhou - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
East Asia is emerging as a hub of technological innovation. This paper investigates the extent to which East Asia has become a source of international knowledge diffusion and whether such diffusion is localized to the region. Using citations made by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365149
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Paradox of Credibility
Jung, Hanjoon Michael - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
In an information transmission situation, a senders concern for its credibility could endow itself with an invisible power to control the detected. In this case, the sender can achieve its favored outcome without losing its credibility, which stays true even when the sender and the receiver have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365389