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REGIME CHANGES AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FISCAL IMBALANCE IN EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES

Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi; Lau, Evan - EconWPA - 2005

In the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, fiscal policy is playing a bigger role in smoothing the business cycle and getting the crisis-affected countries back on their growth paths. The main purpose of this paper is to assess empirically the fiscal policy regimes in five Asian...

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Rosca Participation in Benin : a Commitment Issue

Dagnelie, Olivier; LeMay, Philippe - EconWPA - 2005

In the light of first-hand data from a Beninese urban household survey in Cotonou, we investigate several motives aiming to explain participation in Rotating Savings and Credit ASsociations. We provide empirical findings which indicate that individuals use their participation in a rosca as a...

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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004

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

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

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 …

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Governance Institutions and Incentive Structures in Vietnam

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

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 …

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Sviluppo e riforme in Cile: apertura commerciale, fondi pensione e privatizzazione dei servizi/REFORMS AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHILE: Macro considerations on Int'l Trade, Pension Funds...

Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the growth pattern followed by the Chilean economy with reference to the macroeconomic reforms undertaken during the Pinochet regime, which were largely maintained by successive democratic administrations and partially reproduced by neighbouring countries. The focus is on the...

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Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance

Kaufmann, Daniel; Leautier, Frannie; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2004

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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Modelli di Agenzie di Sviluppo Regionale: Analisi Teorica ed Evidenza Empirica

Arnone, Marco; Pellegrini, Carlo Bellavite; Timpano, Franco - EconWPA - 2004

Questo lavoro intende affrontare la questione degli assetti istituzionali e delle modalità organizzative dell’intervento dello Stato a favore dello sviluppo territoriale. Il tema è di crescente interesse in considerazione del moltiplicarsi dei livelli di governo (sovranazionale, nazionale,...

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The Inequality of Influence

Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...

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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

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

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