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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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The welfare effects of slum improvement programs : the case of Mumbai
Bento, Antônio - 2006
"The authors compare the welfare effects of in situ slum upgrading programs with programs that provide slum dwellers with better housing in a new location. Evaluating the welfare effects of slum upgrading and resettlement programs requires estimating models of residential location choice, in...
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Is inequality in Africa really different?
Milanovic, Branko - 2003
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Country Social Analysis : Ethnicity and Development in Vietnam - Summary report
World Bank - 2012
This report " Country Social Analysis (CSA) " focused on ethnicity and development in Vietnam is a provocative analysis of marginality in contemporary Southeast Asia. It seeks to understand the macro social and political processes, and provides an analysis of how social, political, and cultural...
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Country Social Analysis : Ethnicity and Development in Vietnam - Main Report
World Bank - 2012
This report " Country Social Analysis (CSA) " focused on ethnicity and development in Vietnam is a provocative analysis of marginality in contemporary Southeast Asia. It seeks to understand the macro social and political processes, and provides an analysis of how social, political, and cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550852
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Participation and Indigenous Peoples
World Bank - 2012
The characteristics of indigenous groups make participatory approaches especially critical to safeguarding their interests int he development process. Such approaches, recognizing the right of indigenous peoples to participate actively in planning their own futures, are supported by major donors...
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Municipal Mergers and Associations : International Experience and Reform Options for Croatia
World Bank - 2022
Croatia's high degree of municipal fragmentation has been consistently recognized as a weakness and one of the main problems of its intergovernmental fiscal system. The report argues that the problem of fragmentation is in essence a problem of capacity. The objective of this report is to review...
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