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Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government … transparency. In theory, the multi-stakeholder groups ideal is quite appealing -- each stakeholder has its own interest in the … initiative and contributes its unique capacities. In practice, many multi-stakeholder groups have fallen short of expectations …
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How do civil servants in district water and sanitation departments address problems of water access in rural communities in Tanzania? What are the bureaucratic procedures they follow? How do the bureaucratic procedures around formulating budgets, managing money, and interacting with communities...
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The Jordan Education Initiative, launched in 2003 under the umbrella of the World Economic Forum, is a public …-private partnership, or multi-stakeholder partnership, that integrates information and communication technologies into the education …
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The political economy of health care is complex, as stakeholders have conflicting preferences over efficiency and … judicialization in public health care. It uses a unique dataset of stakeholder perceptions, from Uruguay, to test whether these …
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Stakeholder dialogue, as an alternative institutional strategy for environmentally and socially sustainable development … stakeholder dialogue as an institutional tool for promoting sustainable development in China, and then presents a pilot program of … stakeholder dialogue recently developed in China -- the community environmental roundtables. Community leaders organize roundtable …
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World Bank have been searching for ways to take these political factors more fully into account as they design programs to … could be systematically integrated into the World Bank's country programming cycle. The East Asia and Pacific region carried … out a multi-country pilot of the Agent-Based Stakeholder Model. This innovative analytical approach entails a quantitative …
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This paper derives the skill content of 30 countries, ranging from low-income to high-income ones, from the occupational structure of their economies. Five different skills are defined.. Cross-country measures of skill content show that the intensity of national production of manual skills...
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look at the development and regulation of fixed income securities markets in Europe. Fixed income securities markets in Europe have historically been characterized by a number of national markets that were interconnected by way of foreign exchange markets. They are presently undergoing major...
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This paper studies the benefits, in terms of reliability and frequency of poverty statistics, of conducting a hybrid survey that collects non-consumption data from all surveyed households and consumption data from only a small subsample. Collecting detailed consumption or income data for the...
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This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many developing countries, China can be characterized as...
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