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Recent papers, discussing the impact of economic reform in India, argue that the positive effect of reform is more significant in states, which are not ‘labor friendly’. Also labor market reforms seem to be a pre-condition for success of liberal policies as far as their impact on poverty is...
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In this paper, we consider a theoritical model helping to provide a new insights into the functioning of moroccan labor market. The model examines the impact of imperfect competition among firms with access to specific technologies on the emergence of the new modern economy.The The emergence of...
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interaction between governance and regulation. Thus, it is established that the quality of governance and the institutions …
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regulation has a significant pay off only in the ambit of good governance. More specifically we hypothesise that degree of … intensity of regulation will hardly matter in containing informality; rather what matters is the quality of governance and … 1980 and 2008, we empirically investigate into the linkages between governance, regulation and informal employment by …
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The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and … outcomes. On the whole, the application of good governance will improve program design and will make the implementation … integration of good governance into microcredit intends to improve its program design, implementation strategies and processes …
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The holding of early parliamentary elections in Togo on October 14, 2007, most likely the first free and fair Togolese elections since decades, are considered internationally as a litmus test of despotic African regimes’ propensity to change towards democratization and economic prosperity....
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When the longest-serving African dictator, Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma, died unexpectedly in February 2005 after 38 years of autocratic rule, Togo became a test case for indigenous democratisation efforts of African states. However, it soon became clear that a change of regime through the ballot...
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We provide an analysis of enforcement policies in a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated strategies. We argue that firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do very little to increase TOTAL employment when faced...
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This paper compares more direct measures of the institutional environment with both the instability proxies used by Barro (1991) and the Gastil indices, by comparing their effects both on growth and private investment. The results provide substantial support for the position that the...
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This paper describes the gradual accumulation of indicators and evidence of the links between governance and growth …, focusing on broad cross-country analyses. While each governance indicator developed thus far is in some way imperfect, the … point in the same direction: good governance is crucial for growth. Unfortunately, while current indicators are getting …
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