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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …