"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post … institutional development. In China relatively more estimates suggest that privatization to domestic owners improves the level of …-communist economies, but foreign joint ventures rather than wholly owned foreign firms have a positive effect in China. Worker or …

"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 …

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 …

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

This ROSC analyzes accounting, financial reporting and auditing practices within the corporate sector in Nicaragua … follow high-level accounting and auditing practices and the highest standards of corporate governance. This ROSC supports … skills of accounting and audit practitioners, (ii) strengthening the regulatory framework governing accounting and audit …