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Conway, Paul; Lysenko, Tatiana; Barnard, Geoff - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

environment in Russia supports competition and to draw attention to the areas where further reform efforts would pay dividends …. The indicators show that, despite improvements in some areas, many aspects of Russia’s regulatory framework are still … practice. In particular, the scores suggest that Russia’s economic performance would greatly benefit from a reduction in the …

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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia

Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia. It reconfirms much of what has been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were precisely because lessons from previous research on...

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Putting agricultural research into use: Lessons from contested visions of innovation

Hall, Andy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper is a synthesis of research undertaken as part of the Research Into Use programme (RIU) to explore the question of how agricultural research can be used more effectively to improve agricultural production and farmers' livelihoods in developing countries. Many of the challenges the...

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Public–Private Service Delivery Arrangements and Incentive Schemes in Developing Asia

Capuno, Joseph J. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2014

In many countries, public agencies or private firms are gradually moving away from being exclusive providers of goods and services that traditionally were assigned to the state or markets, respectively. Instead, state agencies, both at the national and the local level, and private organizations,...

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Decentralized Aid and Democracy

Belpaire, Joaquin Morales - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 2012

The last three decades have seen an important surge of the non-governmental sector in the provision of foreign aid. Using NGOs to deliver aid can be a solution to bypass corrupt authorities, avoiding that aid resources are captured by local elites. However NGOs may also act as surrogates for...

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Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?

Sabatini, Fabio; Modena, Francesca; Tortia, Ermanno - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2012

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the...

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PERFORMANCE OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: EMPIRICAL CONTRASTS BETWEEN PRIVATELY AND PUBLICLY FUNDED CROATIAN HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS

Alfirevic, Niksa; Pavicic, Jurica; Cacija, Liljana Najev - In: Economic Annals 59 (2014) 200, pp. 115-115

In this paper we contrast different aspects of non-profit organizations’ performance from the perspective of their funding sources. Based on previous empirical results indicating that sources of funding influence fundraising performance, we extend the existing research to the analysis of...

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Architecture of an Economy with Social Enterprises: the Relational Capacity Approach

RUYS, Pieter H.M. - Centre International de Recherches et d'Information sur … - 2014

One of the main unresolved issues is the way on which a social enterprise can be embedded in a market economy. That problem is approached here by offering a sound foundation for social-economic modeling with private, non-profit and public sectors.An enterprise, being a nexus of relations, is...

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Building an Industrial Society: Welfare Capitalism in the “City of Factories”. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy

Varini, Valerio - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2015

The article retraces the steps which marked the transformation of Sesto San Giovanni from a small agricultural centre in the vicinity of a great city such as Milan, to becoming one of the principal centres of Italian industry. Two preliminary questions, of notable importance, have been dealt...

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Disentangling the relationship between nonprofit and social capital: the role of social cooperatives and social welfare associations in the development of networks of strong and we...

Giacomo, Degli Antoni; Fabio, Sabatini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We use a unique dataset to study how participation in two specific types of nonprofit organizations, i.e. social welfare associations and social cooperatives, affects individual social capital. A descriptive analysis shows that both the types of organization have a positive impact. The...

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