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State-owned enterprises play an important role in economic growth and the delivery of critical public services such as health, education, water, and energy. The underperformance of state-owned enterprises can lead to significant challenges in overall national growth and competitiveness and pose...
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Industry and financial profiles of MENA firms may underpin the observation that MENA country exports are below potential and skewed toward low value-added goods that are unable to spur rapid job creation and inclusive growth. To assess this link, the paper combines analysis highlighting external...
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Drawing from the presidential review commission review, and from other available materials, this background note for the South Africa systematic country diagnostic synthesizes the key issues and recommendations for improving state-owned enterprise (SOE) performance, focusing on the largest...
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areas for consideration to improve SOE corporate governance in Azerbaijan. The Note was prepared by a World Bank Group team … for further collaboration between the World Bank and the Government of Azerbaijan towards SOE reform and related policy …
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This policy paper is motivated by the Government's 'Pakistan: framework for Economic Growth (FEG) 2011' which places weak corporate governance at the top of the 'software' constraints to growth. The efforts to reform the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) have stalled in Pakistan for almost five...
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This paper provides an account of the Emerging Markets Corporate Governance Research Network (EMCGN) and its first 10 years of activities. The network was established under the auspices of the Global Corporate Governance Forum (now incorporated into IFC's Corporate Governance Group). The paper...
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represents a unique collaborative effort to assess the state of corporate governance around the world in the wake of the 2008 …
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This edition of the Law Digest for the World Bank Group's Sanctions Board presents structured summaries of the … relating to the work of the Sanctions Board and the World Bank Group's larger sanctions system. Themes covered in this digest … projects supported by the World Bank Group that form the core of individual sanctions cases …
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