This report assesses the corporate governance practices of listed companies in South Africa, within the broader context of the institutional capacity needed to ensure compliance and enforcement. The diagnostic reflects the corporate governance framework as of December 2001. South Africa has a...

This report provides an assessment of the corporate governance policy framework, and enforcement and compliance practices in the Slovak Republic. Slovakia has already upgraded its legislation to meet European Union (EU) Directives. The legislative and regulatory framework dealing with corporate...

This report provides an assessment of the corporate governance policy framework, and enforcement and compliance practices in Slovenia. The country has already upgraded its legislation to meet European Union (EU) Directives, and, its legal and regulatory framework dealing with corporate...

This report provides an assessment of the corporate governance policy framework, enforcement and compliance practices in Mexico. Mexico has overhauled its policy framework over the past two years and developed world-class standards in a number of different areas. The report highlights the recent...

This report provides an assessment of Moldova's corporate governance framework-its legal and policy framework, as well as enforcement and compliance practices. The report makes policy recommendations where appropriate, and provides investors with a benchmark to compare corporate governance with...

This report assesses the corporate governance policy framework and enforcement and compliance practices in Hungary. Hungary has already invested considerable resources in upgrading its legislation to meet European Union Directives, and the legislative and regulatory framework dealing with...

This report assesses Brazil's corporate governance policy framework. It highlights recent improvements in corporate governance regulation, makes policy recommendations, and provides investors with a benchmark against which to measure corporate governance in Brazil. It is an update of the 2005...

"The authors formulate and test hypotheses about the role of bank ownership types-foreign, state-owned, and private domestic banks-in banking relationships, using data from India. The empirical results are consistent with all of their hypotheses with regard to foreign banks. These banks tend to...

"The authors examine how well several institutional and firm-level factors and their interactions explain firms' perceptions of property rights protection. Their sample includes private and public firms that vary in size from very small to large in 62 countries. Together, the institutional...

"This paper uses micro data from the Indonesian Census of Manufacturing to analyze the causal relationship between foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, the difference in differences approach is combined with a matching technique....