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A Corporate Governance Model : Building Responsible Boards and Sustainable Businesses
World Bank - 2012
The foundation of good corporate governance is the intellectual honesty of directors and senior management. This intellectual honesty is expressed by acting in the best interests of the incapacitated company. The company, on formation, is a person, but it is absolutely incapacitated until its...
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Corporate Responsibility
World Bank - 2012
Activists are often unhappy with the laws governing business behavior and with their enforcement. One strategy they use to alter the behavior of corporations is to target not the laws but the corporations, hoping that they will change without being legally obliged to. Sometimes firms do, because...
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World Development Report 2015 : Mind, Society, and Behavior
World Bank - 2014
Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that...
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Does strict employment protection discourage job creation : evidence from Croatia
Rutkowski, Jan - 2003
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Regaining Fiscal Sustainability and Enhancing Effectiveness in Croatia : A Public Expenditure and Institutional Review
World Bank - 2013
The report presents the macroeconomic setting, and fiscal developments in the 1990s in Croatia, a country facing an … budget in Croatia is not a comprehensive measure of all fiscal activity, namely that five extra-budgetary funds are not …
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Solid Waste Management in Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, and Romania : A Cross-Country Analysis of Sector Challenges Towards EU Harmonization
World Bank - 2012
enabling environment that transforms the solid waste management sector in Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, and Romania. The EU … analyzes progress in Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, and Romania; and identifies important shortcomings towards meeting the …
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Croatia : Social Impact of the Crisis and Building Resilience
World Bank - 2012
This report analyzes the impact of the global economic crisis on the labor market and poverty in Croatia, and discusses …-effectiveness of social policy in Croatia in response to an economic downturn. It argues that the impact of the crisis on employment … the social protection system in Croatia within the existing resource envelope, and build resilience against potential …
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Croatia - Restructuring Public Finance to Sustain Growth and Improve Public Services : A Public Finance Review
World Bank - 2012
Croatia on a path to the European Union (EU). While opening the economy to global markets through World Trade Organization … Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) marked the first firm milestone on Croatia's path to EU. In October 2005, Croatia … Government has an unparalleled opportunity to place Croatia on a sustainable growth path to achieve better living standards for …
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