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Breen, Michael; Gillanders, Robert; McNulty, Gemma; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Surveys, which measure firms’ experience of corruption and the gender of their owners and top managers. We find that women in … positions of influence are associated with less corruption: female-owned businesses pay less in bribes and corruption is seen as …, ethically at least, good for business our research contributes to the literature on development, gender equality, and corruption …

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Improving the quality of governance in Poland through performance based budgeting

Hardt, Lukasz; de Jong, Maarten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper asks whether performance based budgeting (PBB) can serve as a tool for implementing the rules of good governance in Polish state administration. The authors put emphasis on analyzing de facto mechanisms of PBB implementation rather than focusing only on de jure ones. In other words,...

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Theoretical Perspective of Local Government - Literature Review

Haqu, Adnan ul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

“This research paper discusses the basic fundamentals of local government in theoretical perspective. The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate the conceptual framework of local government with its significance in the modern era. Various approaches of local government are discussed in...

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State of Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.

Ahmad, Sayed Javed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper discusses the problems and issues on the political failures in Bangladesh as well as identifies some possible solutions. The approach here is analytical mostly reviewing current news, reports and other related materials. A comparative study is also done between the present and...

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El desarrollo institucional en el contexto de la ineficacia de la ayuda: ¿qué podemos hacer?

Bandeira, Pablo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

What is institutional development? How important is it? Which institutions promote development? Why they are not naturally implemented? How can we support them? These are the questions that this article tries to answer, based on the recent international literature on the topic, within the...

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Works on market supervision and shar'iyah governance (al-hisbah wa al-siyasah al-shar'iyah) by the sixteenth century scholars

Islahi, Abdul Azim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In Islamic tradition two sets of works – al-hisbah and al-siyasah al-shar‛iyah – appeared that proved to be a rich source of economic thought of past Muslim thinkers. Works related to al-hisbah generally discussed socio-economic control, moral and market supervision, prevention of...

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Decentralized Local Governance In Fragile States: Learning From Iraq

Brinkerhoff, Derick W.; Johnson, Ronald W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article examines the role that local governance plays in creating an effective state and in building constructive state—society relations. Reconstruction efforts in fragile, post-conflict states have focused largely on central government, yet decentralized local authorities offer a number...

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Compatibility of the Content of Bachelor Programs in Public Administration with the Needs of Good Governance - A Comparison: EU-US

Matei, Lucica; Matei, Ani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Higher education in most European states is subject to a complex process of adaptation to the requirements formulated by Bologna process. For some states, such as Romania, this process assumes core restructuring of the content, aimed to its compatibility with that from prestigious European...

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Polity qualities: how governance affects poverty

Moore, Mick; Leavy, Jennifer; Houtzager, Peter; White, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

For a large sample of 61 developing countries, over the period 1980-95, we calculate a measure of the efficiency with which national political-economic systems convert a given volume of material resources (GNP per capita) into human development (longevity, education and literacy) for their...

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Corporate Governance and Bank Performance: Evidence from Macedonia

Fidanoski, Filip; Mateska, Vesna; Simeonovski, Kiril - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The role of banks is integral to the economic development of any country. Given the renewed attention on the corporate governance in banks with the global financial crises, this paper investigates the relevance of board size, board composition and CEO qualities in the banks and their...

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