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vested interests in legal and judicial reform projects in Guyana …
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The specific objectives of this Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) are to: 1) Review the existing situation in the sector, identify priority areas for policy changes or investments, and consider the role of the government, the private sector, and donors in implementing this agenda 2) Assess...
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This study investigates the World Bank's use of lending and non-lending instruments to affect the policy priorities of developing countries. In a typical year, the World Bank lends more than USD 30 billion to its client countries. It also spends approximately USD 200 million on the provision of...
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The last few decades witnessed a dramatic change in public opinion towards gay people. This paper studies the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to "come out" and that the ensuing process of mobilization and endogenous political process led to cultural...
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Serbia spends relatively large amounts on state aid programs, many of which will have to be phased out or restructured … to comply with EU laws. There is room to restructure the existing programs to target activities that have more growth and …, state-owned enterprises, and large or old private domestic firms. Although Serbia's program to attract foreign direct …
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the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration (MRDPA). Building on the previous engagement, the current … funding sources, particularly infrastructure programs financed from the state budget and from EU structural funds. The …
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contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U ….S. like experience rating system modelled as a combination of a layoff tax and a payroll subsidy. The reform considered shows …
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