making traffic flow more efficiently in a given infrastructure. Furthermore, the virtual world gives rise to new business … continues to drive qualitative improvements in traffic conditions, e-business and telework in particular have, for structural … reasons, a much less pronounced effect on traffic than widely presumed. ICT helps in organising traffic flows more efficiently …

about state capacity in Nigeria by taking stock of economic and governance issues. Using a simple growth model, we …

investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that governance is key to the business environment and … investment climate. The survey findings suggest that key policy, institutional and governance indicators affect the growth of a … corruption on the one hand, and growth and investment on the other, and it highlights the costs to economies where the state is …

topic of governance saw us fly off in many directions, and after some discussion of public sector reform processes we found … the aspects of governance, however, allows little to be studied in depth, and anyway that is not the objective of this … research project. This paper therefore begins by making clear the nature of governance generally and then how and why this …

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 …

of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …