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about state capacity in Nigeria by taking stock of economic and governance issues. Using a simple growth model, we …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …
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corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and … national governance have been unexplored. This paper summarises the results of the Business Environment and Enterprise … Performance Survey (BEEPS) across 20 transition economies, providing an assessment of governance and corruption from the …
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Globalisation, governance and economic performance affect each other in very complex mutual relationships. In this … paper, we establish a clear and well-circumscribed hypothesis: “is there an effect of globalisation on governance?” To test … available theoretical explanations of causal relationships between globalisation and governance. Microeconomic theory helps us …
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