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Corporate governance in the private sector and corruption are important for economic development and private sector … development. This paper investigates how corporate governance in private-sector media companies can affect public corruption. The … concentration affects corruption: an owner effect, which discourages corruption and a competition-for-control effect that enhances …
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industrial growth in India. The expected annual sales growth rate of an enterprise is lower where labor regulation is greater … business growth seem also to depend on a fourth element, namely, corruption. Specifically, labor regulation affects the growth … only of enterprises for which corruption is not a factor in business decisions. By contrast, power shortages seem to be a …
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Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find...
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A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial two decades of transition (from the early 1990s to the early 2010s), this paper documents how the country's business environment and the characteristics of entrepreneurs...
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An expanding body of literature has shown that better management practices can offer significant boosts to firms' productivity; this research illustrates that firms in South America are no exception. Using recent Enterprise Survey data from seven countries in South America (Argentina, Bolivia,...
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The quality of the public procurement system of an economy can have far-reaching effects on the private sector. This paper empirically explores several of these effects using two rich data sets. An overall indicator of public procurement quality is created from the World Bank?s Benchmarking...
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Public sectors in the Pacific Islands are frequently described as being' too big' and as' crowding out' private sector economic activity. Reducing their size, it follows, would provide much-needed space for private sector expansion and result in higher levels of economic growth. This paper...
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