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Institutional innovations for smallholder farmers’ competitiveness in Africa
Oluoch-Kosura, Willis - In: African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 05 (2010) 1
In most sub-Saharan African economies, agriculture is the dominant sector and plays an essential role in rural and overall economic development. Paradoxically, sub-Saharan Africa is the sole region in the developing world where per capita food production has remained low for many years....
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Desenvolvimentos institucionais recentes no setor de telecomunicações no Brasil
de Sousa, Rodrigo Abdalla Filgueiras; de Souza, … - 2013
developed by Levy and Spiller (1993, 1994, 1996), the paper examined both governance structure and incentive model of the … institutional context. From the evidences presented, it may be inferred that Brazil has a solid governance structure for the … regulatory system. The stability of regulatory governance prevailed over political changes caused by government alternation, and …
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Essays on Intitutional Governance
Hu, Bingjie - 2011
This thesis consists of three chapters on the choice of institutional governance. The first chapter provides empirical … costs by helping to foster a productive governance atmosphere for the contracting parties. The second chapter explores … provide firm-level evidence on the choice of between legal and relational governance, in the context of the transition economy …
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Desenvolvimentos institucionais recentes no setor de telecomunicações no Brasil
Sousa, Rodrigo Abdalla Filgueiras de; Souza, Nathalia … - 2013
developed by Levy and Spiller (1993, 1994, 1996), the paper examined both governance structure and incentive model of the … institutional context. From the evidences presented, it may be inferred that Brazil has a solid governance structure for the … regulatory system. The stability of regulatory governance prevailed over political changes caused by government alternation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230695
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Governança e planejamento ambiental : adaptação e politicas públicas na Macrometrópole Paulista
Torres, Pedro (ed.); Jacobi, Pedro Roberto (ed.);  … - 2019
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Development Imperatives for the Asian Century
Petri, Peter; Thomas, Vinod - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2013
development partners can make a difference in promoting the three policy objectives. Innovations in governance for better …
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Economic development, growth, institutions and geography
Bhupatiraju, Samyukta; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
In this paper, we test the Rodrik et al (2004) framework to explain differences in development levels across countries by using a broader set of definitions for institutions, geography and economic variables. We use a multi-faceted database to measure institutions in an attempt to go beyond the...
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Savings and the Debt Cycle: The Ambiguous Role of Institutions
Freytag, Andreas; Voll, Sebastian - Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena - 2013
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Democracies in Development: Politics and Reform in Latin America Title: La política importa: Democracia y desarrollo en América Latina
Mateo-Berganza Diaz, Maria Mercedes; Carrillo-Flórez, … - Inter-American Development Bank
democratic governance, and offers tentative conclusions on the types of reforms that may hold promise for strengthening democracy …
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On the Determinants and Effects of Political Influence
Chong, Alberto E.; Gradstein, Mark - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This paper uses a large cross-country survey of business firms to assess their influence on government policies. It is found that influence is associated with larger, government-owned firms that have a high degree of ownership concentration. In contrast, foreign ownership matters little. It is...
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