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World Bank - 2012

This Note on public management of pension funds concludes that publicly-managed pension reserves are often used to finance non-pension policy. Public pension fund managers tend to invest based on objectives unrelated to pension provision. These include social and economically target investments...

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Colombia - Programmatic Strategic Engagement on Public Sector Management and Governance : Concept Note

World Bank - 2013

This concept note presents the strategic engagement of the World Bank in the areas of public sector management and governance in Colombia. It describes the short and medium term approach through which the Bank will provide support to the country on those areas of reform, as well as their links...

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Foreign informational lobbying can enhance tourism : evidence from the Caribbean

Gawande, Kishore S. - 2009

"There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of U.S. policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments … issues. This paper empirically studies whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context … of Caribbean tourism, and suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are …

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Lobbying and agricultural trade policy in the United States

Gawande, Kishore S. - 2006

"The authors study whether political campaign contributions influence agricultural protection in the United States in the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman and Helpman (1994). This is the first attempt to test this model using agricultural data. The authors test the...

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The structure of lobbying and protection in U.S. agriculture

Gawande, Kishore S. - 2005

the 1991-2000 period to investigate the relationship between lobbying spending and agricultural protection. A detailed … sectors the majority of contributions are made by very few PACs. Econometric analysis reveals that lobbying spending by … strong association between the average U.S. tariff on goods that benefit from U.S. export subsidies and lobbying spending …

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The role of importers and exporters in the determination of the U.S. tariff preferences granted to Latin America

Silva, Peri Agostinho da - 2005

Latin American exporters and U.S. importers' lobbying efforts have a significant and important role in determining the …

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Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis

Keefer, Philip - 2004

"Keefer proposes a new approach to explain why the costs of crisis are greater in some countries than in others. He begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests at the expense of broad social interests. A parsimonious model...

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Inefficient lobbying, populism, and oligarchy

Campante, Filipe R. - 2004

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Working for God? : evaluating service delivery of religious not-for-profit health care providers in Uganda

Reinikka, Ritva - 2003

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Yemen Civil Society Organizations in Transition : A Mapping and Capacity Assessment of Development-Oriented Civil Society Organizations in Five Governorates

World Bank - 2014

Civil society in Yemen is vibrant and diverse but highly fragmented. It includes independent registered and organized civic groups, less organized local self-help organizations, and charity oriented groups. The first period, from 1950 to 1963, saw a growth in associational activity in the modern...

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