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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2009
"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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Special issues relating to corporate governance and family control
Morck, Randall - 2004
"Control of corporate assets by wealthy families in economies lacking institutional integrity is common. It has negative implications on corporate governance and adverse macroeconomic effects when it extends across a sufficiently large part of the country's corporate sector. Morck and Yeung...
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Making Transport Work for Women and Men : Tools for Task Teams
World Bank - 2013
The primary objective of this report is to provide brief, relevant, and practical tools for World Bank task teams and their country counterparts to facilitate their work in addressing gender issues in transport policies and projects. This responds to the need, expressed by task teams, to...
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Disability-Inclusive Health Care Systems : Technical Note for World Bank Task Teams
World Bank - 2022
The objective of this Technical Note is to provide task teams and task team leaders (TTLs) with tools for designing and …
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The development philosophy of Robert S. McNamara
Maddux, John L. - 1981
To mark the retirement of Robert S. McNamara as President of the World Bank after thirteen years of service, the Bank's Executive Directors commissioned a book gathering together all the principal statements Mr. McNamara made during his tenure of office
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Republic of Bulgaria : Institutional Fiduciary Assessment (IFA) of Road Executive Agency
World Bank - 2012
, including new construction and maintenance. The list of issues identified by the World Bank fiduciary team during field work … from May to early June 2006 is by no means considered exhaustive. The team was not provided full access to all the required … information and documents, thus, only enabling the team to assess REA's internal control framework at a very general level without …
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Where Were the Directors?
World Bank - 2012
3) bridging the expertise chasm between Managers and Directors. Those are all long-standing issues, what makes Beatty …
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Doing Business 2011 : Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs
World Bank - 2010
Eighth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 183 economies, Doing Business 2011 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit,...
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Entrepreneurship in post-conflict transition : the role of informality and access to finance
Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı - 2009
"The authors examine the factors affecting the transition to self-employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Survey panel household survey for the years 2001-2004. In the beginning of the sample, the country changed its legal framework, with the...
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