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emerging institutional innovations in globalized regulation. The framework highlights two dimensions of effectiveness -- the … for three distinctive approaches to globalized regulation: i) Government-centric approaches, including treaties, extra …-territorial regulation and government networks -- seven examples are assessed in the paper. ii) Civil regulation, including both joint …
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This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the …
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world. With the global economy evolving continuously and rapidly, countries must pay close attention to their positioning on …
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. The authors construct an index that measures the existence of laws and regulation that support mobile banking activity for … laws and regulation in supporting mobile banking. The analysis finds that a supporting regulatory framework is associated …
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The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This paper reviews and synthesizes...
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Improving the investment climate is among the top priorities in development. The World Bank Group's Doing Business …
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The global financial crisis has focused much attention on procyclicality, particularly in the context of a macroprudential framework. This paper reviews a set of prudential measures that can be adopted by national authorities to deal with procyclicality and discusses issues in designing and...
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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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The authors use panel data on the number of new firm registrations in 95 countries to study the impact of the business environment and 2008 financial crisis on new firm registration. The data show that more dynamic formal business creation occurs in countries that provide entrepreneurs with a...
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-border syndicated loan market. Lending provided through a foreign subsidiary is subject to subsidiary-country regulation and … stringent bank regulation and supervision consistent with regulatory arbitrage, but that they prefer to originate loans in …
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