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Politics, policies and the dynamics of aggregate productivity in Colombia
Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela - 2009
This paper describes private actors involvement in Colombia s policymaking process. While more transparent and formal channels are used to discuss horizontal policies, they are also less effective. The adoption of targeted policies, however, follows a faster track and depends more on political...
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The political economy of emission tax design in environmental policy
Glachant, Matthieu - 2002
In actual environmental policy, the design of actual pollution emission taxes differs significantly with the optimal Pigovian tax. In particular, earmarking prevails and actual taxes are usually combined with regulation. Furthermore tax rates are generally too low to significantly influence...
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Media underreporting as a barrier to India-Pakistan trade normalization : quantitative analysis of newsprint dailies
Mediratta, Rahul - 2014
Over the past two decades, India and Pakistan have been involved in several activities regar ding bilateral trade … waves of trade-related activity reflected in popular media coverage? This question connects to a longstanding and important …-security issues such as trade. A dearth of popular awareness on trade-related activities between India and Pakistan may limit the …
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Asian global value chain upgradation: comparing technology & trade performance
Arora, Kashika; Siddiqui, Areej Aftab - 2021
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Relative product diversification in the course of economic development : import-export analysis
Parteka, Aleksandra; Tamberi, Massimo - 2012 - This version: 28.11.2012
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Can bottom-up institutional reform improve service delivery?
Molina, Ezequiel - 2014
This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...
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Move to markets? : an empirical analysis of privatization in developing countries
Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh; Munger, Michael C. - 2002
We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle-income developing countries. The theoretical perspective turns on the concept of net political benefits, which in our model is the primary determinant of privatization policies....
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The political consequences of green policies : evidence from Italy
Colantone, Italo; Di Lonardo, Livio; Margalit, Yotam; … - 2022
For many governments, enacting green policies is a priority, but such policies often impose on citizens substantial and uneven costs. How does the introduction of green policies affect voting? We study this question in the context of a major ban on polluting cars introduced in Milan, which was...
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Drug quality and safety issues in India
Chokshi, Maulik; Mongia, Rahul; Wattal, Vasudha - 2015
of this paper is upon the domestic pharmaceutical market in India, where policy makers often face a trade-off between …
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Administrative structure and functions of drug regulatory authorities in India
Chowdhury, Nupur; Joshi, Pallavi; Patnaik, Arpita; … - 2015
Drug Regulation has been the focus of several recent policy reform efforts in India, starting with the Mashelkar Committee Report in 2003 to the most recent report of the Ranjit Roy Chaudhary Committee in 2013. Nevertheless, the regulatory structure continues to be plagued with several...
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