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China's management of enterprise assets : the state as shareholder
1997
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Does More Power for Shareholders Undermine Board Stewardship?
World Bank - 2012
The level of shareholders' expertise and experience needs to be questioned as they wield greater clout and become more … deeply involved in strategic issues that should be the board's purview. This misdirected involvement distracts shareholders … from their principal and most important role: electing and overseeing boards. To play that role, shareholders must have the …
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Ownership structure and initial public offerings
Aggarwal, Reena - 2003
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TB Control
World Bank - 2012
Despite the discovery fifty years ago, of drugs that can cure tuberculosis (TB), the disease still remains a top killer worldwide. The note stipulates that one third of the world's population is infected by Mycrobacterium Tuberculosis, and while ninety percent of infected individuals never...
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Latvia - Sharing the High Growth Dividend : A Living Standards Assessment
World Bank - 2012
Between 1998 and 2004, Latvia achieved substantial progress in poverty reduction, with an estimated 325,000 people moving out of poverty over this period. This report examines the extent and causes of poverty reduction during this period using data from a variety of sources, the national...
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Cabo Verde Economic Update : Cabo Verde's Potential Digital Dividends
World Bank - 2022
The second Economic Update for Cabo Verde focuses on the importance of returning to fiscal sustainability in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis and on the potential role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in strengthening the foundations for a sustainable and inclusive economic...
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Public sentinel : news media & governance reform
Norris, Pippa (contributor) - 2009
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Corporate governance of state-owned enterprises : a guide for practitioners
2014
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Corporate governance and bank performance : a joint analysis of the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership
Berger, Allen N. (contributor) - 2005
"The authors jointly analyze the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership on bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same model. "Nonrobustness" checks (which purposely exclude...
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What drives corporate governance reform? : firm-level evidence from Eastern Europe
Aroca González, Patricio (contributor) - 2005
shareholders are more likely to adopt these provisions. The authors do not find any significant relationship between the use of … provisions is influenced by large, minority shareholders in their battle for representation in the board, and in managerial …
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