intransigence of the previous regime the IMF and World Bank have taken advantage of political change in Malawi to push a reform … stagnation. The enthusiasm of the World Bank and IMF in pushing for continued reform is further hurting the economy and pushing … reform process, and also allow reasonable time for adjustment, the Bank and Fund is keen to push for reform without shaping …

voters' welfare. We find that the designers of a successful reform need to have information that is privately held by … candidates. The redistributive effects of a reform and how that would affect the popularity of the reform is discussed as well …. Finally, we argue that a welfare-improving reform that would reduce the corruption may not be supported by both corrupt and …

— the evaluative framework used for assessing reform proposals and the development of implementation strategies to give … involve explicit consideration of the likely benefits, costs and distributional effects of reform proposals, not just for …

Government to examine the contribution that national reform of building regulation has made and further reform could make to the … in reform of building regulation and to negotiate a new Intergovernmental Agreement. The agreement would clarify the … objectives of building regulation reform; strengthen the commitment to national consistency; and also affirm the importance of a …

, as a ‘bottom-up’ solution, rather than continuing attempts to force through ‘top-down’ reform of the existing state …

The tax office wins most cases in Japan. We think about why this might be. We find that although judges who rule in …

Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly …

This paper examines the exchange rate pass-through to yen based manufactured import prices of Japan using asymmetric … shown that the recession in Japan in the 1990s has significantly affected the exchange rate passthrough relationship …