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administration. Both can play a key role in improving the quality of regulation, and creating healthy and competitive markets and an … discusses definitions and key issues associated with regulation, regulatory quality, and competition policy. This discussion … focuses on competition policy as it relates to restrictions on competition and also pro-competitive regulation, which involves …
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Countries that strike it rich when exploring for oil and gas often fail to see growth materialize. This paper shows that one way things can get messy is via squandering new wealth, based on future resource revenues, on arms imports. In the five years following a giant oil or gas discovery, arms...
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Beyond their key contribution to value chains in all sectors, services represent a centrally important source of economic and export diversification. This paper discusses how to promote trade in services as a channel for growth, employment, and diversification by assessing services trade costs...
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financial regulation. First, the paper proposes a broad index of regulatory quality for financial inclusion, emphasizing the …
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incorporated into the books of the acquirer. The overriding principle of accounting regulation is primacy of economic substance …
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While precise impact of Brexit on the EU/UK trade and investment agreements with third countries will depend primarily on the terms of the withdrawal agreement to be concluded between them, most scenarios suggest an extensive process of amendment of the text and/or commitments in multilateral...
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The European Union's Cohesion Policy is its biggest investment instrument. It supports the Europe 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth. With a budget of EUROS 351.8 billion for 2014-2020, the Cohesion Policy accounts for around one-third of the EU budget. The Cohesion Policy...
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Europe and North America, the significance of financial cooperatives in terms of financial inclusion in the developing world …
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Sustainable energy is at the heart of the global development and climate change agenda. Reaching the targets set by the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) will require a rapid increase in energy access, renewable energy and the efficient use of existing energy resources....
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statistics on the size of public procurement in economies around the world. While data are publicly available for High …-income economies, for the rest of the world, data and studies are scarce. However, public procurement is as important in developing …
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