In this paper we empirically discuss whether or not external debt affects country's governance. Indeed, indebted … countries need some political governance reforms in order to send out a positive signal to international financial community and … costs to political governance. Our study focuses on the period 1985-2011 and spans 103 developing countries. To deal with …

of democracy in his country during his tenure. This e ffect is shown to be independent from the leader's education level …, as well as from his profession. Moreover, it is mainly driven by countries with a poor initial level of democracy. These …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …

66 developing countries over the period 1990-2005, this paper provides econometric evidence that democracy matters for … insufficiently welfare minded. We found that high levels of democracy are specifically needed in natural resource rich countries to …

element of human-sized organizations that were the first mutual or cooperative Caisses, is democracy running the risk to … disappearance of democracy inherent to the cooperative project, a more differentiating diagnosis is proposed, followed by an outline … of some working leads for a creative evolution of cooperative democracy. …

quality of democracy, and we investigate whether foreign aid can dampen them. We take advantage of previous empirical findings … flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms of trade instability on democracy. An empirical investigation with data … of trade instability affects democracy through income instability. …

For the last thirty years, port governance has been marked by a new level of complexity which has resulted in the … modes of governance and is now attempting to explain how they are linked to port performance Models of port governance … on public decision-making and the institutional models applied in port governance in 7 European countries and Canada. It …

What does governance mean for the World Bank and to what extent does the organization succeed in diffusing the paradigm … worldwide? The World Bank primarily focused on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s, and progressively moved to its … knowledge on this specific issue. The potential influence of the World Bank's main governance indicators: Country Policy and …