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Constitutional Rules and Agricultural Policy Outcomes
Olper, Alessandro - 2009
This paper deals with the effect of constitutional rules on agricultural policy outcomes in a panel of observations for more than 70 developing and developed countries in the 1955-2005 period. Testable hypotheses are drawn from recent developments in the comparative politics literature that see...
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The speed of justice
Kondylis, Florence; Stein, Mattea - 2018
Can changing the rules of the game affect government performance? This paper studies the impact of a simple procedural reform on the efficiency and quality of adjudication in Senegal. The reform gave judges the duty and powers to conclude pre-trial proceedings within a four-month deadline. The...
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Using courts to realize education rights : reflections from India and Indonesia : background paper to the 2018 World Development Report
Rosser, Andrew; Joshi, Anuradha - 2018
This paper examines the role of courts in promoting fulfillment of the right to education in developing country democracies, focusing on India and Indonesia-two countries that have experienced increased education rights litigation in recent years. The paper argues that this litigation has been...
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The Challenge of Agricultural Pollution : Evidence from China, Vietnam, and the Philippines
Cassou, Emilie - 2018
victim of its own success.In parts of China, Vietnam, and the Philippines-the countries studied in The Challenge of …
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Republic of the Philippines Labor Market Review : Employment and Poverty
World Bank - 2016
This study analyzes labor market performance in the Philippines from the perspective of workers' welfare. It argues …
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Support to Rural Sanitation Scale Up Under the Philippine National Sustainable Sanitation Plan
World Bank - 2015
the Philippines in framing relevant institutional and financial reforms by key sector agencies and in strengthening the …
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Strengthening Oversight : Improving the Quality of Statutory Audits in the Philippines
World Bank Group - 2016
Since 2003, the Philippines have been striving to implement reforms aimed at improving audit quality. Oversight of the … Philippines. These include (1) reforming the legal framework to establish an effective audit oversight system with sufficient …
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Alternative and Inclusive Learning in the Philippines
World Bank - 2016
The Philippines has made remarkable progress in improving the quality of basic education in recent decades. Even so …
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Enhancing Competition Conditions and Competitiveness of Philippine Domestic Shipping
World Bank Group - 2014
For the economy to attain its full potential, the Philippines requires an efficient water transport system. However … Philippine ports than between 2 Philippine ports via an international portrait In the East Asia region, the Philippines trails …, the Philippines ranked 66th out of 157 countries in 2013, and performs the worst among a group of East Asian comparators …
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Policy Options for Liberalizing Philippine Maritime Cabotage Restrictions
World Bank Group - 2014
of cabotage, the cost and benefit of cabotage liberalization, and the cabotage regimes of the Philippines and of selected …
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