Private investment in agriculture in developing countries, both domestic and foreign, has been on the rise for nearly … solutions. This paper marries two substantial bodies of research to show how investment contracts can be set up to promote … produced a guide to negotiating contracts for farmland and water, including a model contract. …

This brief includes the following heading: introduction; a bottom-up success; fuel for the future; procurement: where …

also decreases average wages, productivity, and investment. The results are robust to several specification changes, and to …

, and institutional constraints on the enforcement of contract, creditor, and property rights in Macedonia, and to integrate …

agencies in the procurement of goods through International Competitive Bidding (ICB). The procedures and practices presented in …

investment. The Africa Union's African Mining Vision 2050 outlines a new resource-based industrialization and development … governments are also increasingly looking for ways to maximize benefits derived from investment in mining. This report aims to … support efforts to maximize local procurement by the mining sector by providing policy recommendations for national …

recession. The main sources of growth in previous years, remittances, imports, and foreign investment, were undermined by the …

This assessment reviews the current status of public procurement in Armenia and makes recommendations for further … improvements. It also provides an update of the Country Procurement Assessment Report (CPAR) carried out in May 2004. The report … includes an action plan to assist the Government of Armenia (GoA) in moving the procurement reform agenda forward. The …