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The newly adopted post-2015 development agenda is centered on 17 sustainable development goals to be reached by 2030. This volume of the World Bank Legal Review looks at how law and justice systems can support the financing and implementation of these goals, including the role of the rule of law...
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Over the past two decades there has been a resurgence of interest, on the part of both academics and practitioners, in using law to promote development in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia. The level of academic interest in the topic is reflected in the...
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This article analyzes a number of yearly reports from the World Bank's Doing Business project, an ambitious international effort to measure various aspects of law and development, analyze their inter-relationship, develop benchmarks for assessment of legal systems, and suggest legal reforms....
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between institutions and economic performance. The included works encompass seminal cross-country studies of 'whether … institutions matter', as well as leading examples of within-country studies on the role of specific institutions. This … indispensable volume includes an original introduction by the editor which explores the definition and measurement of institutions …
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This chapter focuses on private firms' compliance with norms concerning transnational bribery. It begins with an overview of the regulatory context and obstacles to effective enforcement norms against transnational bribery. It then reviews how compliance is defined, how it ought to be defined,...
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This article explains why states in which bribe payers are located (payor states) criminalize transnational bribery. It suggests that these initiatives can enable selfinterested payor states to improve the terms upon which their nationals obtain the services of foreign public officials. Although...
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