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Across the world, governments use minimum wages, employment protection legislation, and other labor regulations that define the legal boundaries of employment to manage potential labor market imperfections. These imperfections include information asymmetry, uneven market power between employers...
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The global sanitation workforce bridges the gap between sanitation infrastructure and the provision of sanitation services. Sanitation workers provide an essential public service but often at the cost of their dignity, safety, health, and living conditions. They are some of the most vulnerable...
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This report summarizes a program of research coordinated by the World Bank and carried out from October 2002 to May 2004. The objectives of the program have been to: 1) Highlight the major dynamics in the evolution of important sanitary and phytosanitary standards (SPS) in selected...
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The Country Opinion Survey in Haiti assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Haiti perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private...
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This Survey on Ethics and Corruption in the Federal Public Service was held online from April 28 to May 28, 2021, in ….4 percent) witnessed some unethical practice, according to their reports. Corruption in the public service is multifaceted, thus … representativeness, the data generated by the study could become a valuable source for the development of knowledge about corruption in …
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, which examined the organizational structure for investigating and prosecuting tax crime and corruption, as well as models … warranted to improve interagency cooperation, as only 55 percent of the surveyed countries require corruption investigators to …
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corruption in Romania. It examines the perception of corruption by citizens and business along with the consequences. The chapter … also proposes a 'theory of change' that can support Romania's anti-corruption agenda in an integrated manner. The second … chapter presents a brief analysis of the institutional and legislative framework for anti-corruption initiatives in Romania …
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News headlines over the last few years have been filled with global scandals involving corruption on an unprecedented … operating procedures, will result in new corruption scandals in the post-COVID (coronavirus) years. There are already reports in … corruption and how countries are attempting to address this long-standing scourge on development …
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This study analyzes how Rwanda fought administrative corruption in the public sector over the last two decades. The … focus on administrative corruption in the public sector is dictated by the difficulty of assessing, observing, and measuring … corruption relating to state capture and by emphasis that Rwandan officials have placed on reducing corruption in the everyday …
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This study examines household perceptions and experiences with corruption in the Kyrgyz Republic. The aims of the study … are two-fold: first, to assess the level of administrative corruption in public service agencies, and second, to assess … the impact of corruption on different income groups. This Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) included a nationally …
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