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The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...
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This paper examines the functioning of some of India's institutions of governance, namely, the legislative and … executive branches of government, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy, from an instrumental, economic perspective. Governance is … India's experience of governance reflects insufficiencies in all three dimensions: of durability, enforcement, and …
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A core result of the aid allocation literature is that the quality of governance in recipient countries does not affect … through different channels and considering different dimensions of governance, we provide evidence that bypassing governments …
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This paper presents a model comparing the optimal degree of asset class diversification abroad by a central bank and a sovereign wealth fund. We show that if the central bank manages its foreign asset holdings in order to meet balance of payments needs, particularly in reducing the probability...
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Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We … state to establish and implement policies reflecting good governance; for example, a government that is accountable and …
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hierarchical contests and comparing the implications of centralized with decentralized governance. Increasing information available …
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Germany's system of economic and political governance strongly relies on group decision-making and consensus to solve … the employers' associations in wage formation, the trade unions in the governance of firms through codetermination and the … codetermination and by a governmental planning approach. In addition, in the governance of government and its federal structure …
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this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential …
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We argue that a purpose of foreign aid is to whet the appetite of the recipient in order to bring about a long term commitment to what the donor perceives as a need, but which the recipient may rank lower down on his list of undertakings, or may be sufficiently resource constrained as to be...
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, and/or the bureaucratic necessity of laying claim to having the bigger impact. The idea here is that good governance … argument for establishing good governance criteria is as much to put constraints on donor behavior as on the necessity of …
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