Capital markets facilitate capital growth by mobilizing savings and converting them into investments, and they are … to incentivize investments; developing and implementing focused policies to support the growth of micro, small and medium …

) as an agent by offering two types of contracts (optimal and sub-optimal) in order to increase Congolese pension income. …

'contract clientelism', or the provision of public contracts to private firms in exchange for campaign donations. Using … quantitative data on Colombian infrastructure contracts, we demonstrate that municipalities exhibit an 'electoral contracting cycle …' in which incumbents assign low-quality contracts while on the campaign trail. Contract manipulations are more common in …