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Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened recently in many countries. Such longevity gaps affect the actuarial fairness and progressivity of public pension systems. However, behavioral responses to longevity and policy complicate...
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negatively associated with governance measured as rule of law and voice and accountability. …
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This paper analyses the impact of aid flows on governance. Using an instrumental variable approach and a large country … sample, we find that aid has a negative rather than a positive influence on governance. This outcome is robust to various …
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This paper reviews the application of national antitrust law and the implementation of the European Union's telecommunications directives to the markets in the United Kingdom, against the declared policy objective of raising national competitiveness. It illustrates the complexity of the systems...
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sources, FPCs initiated by farmers are more inclined to introduce centralized decision-making. The governance structure of …
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Over the past three decades the globalization in agri-food sector has been accompanied by a dramatic restructuring, liberalization and privatization of markets often with serious adverse consequences for small farmers in developing and transition countries. Consequently, governments and the...
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for knowledge and skills' transfer and governance coordination of the layers involved. Several concepts and indicators can … be combined to support a conceptual framework for governance redefinition and sustainable growth. A comparison with … could facilitate governance and growth sustainability. It is less the size or the level of economic development that …
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management capacity of key organizations working in a descentralized way and their background on local development governance …
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the Piraeus cluster structure and governance. The main principle is the pursue of increased competitiveness, not only for …
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Proximity analyses have nowadays turned out to be a part of the toolbox of regional scientists and this notion recently became very popular in the position of politics, and private or public stakeholders. In parallel, the notion of proximity spread in the academic literature and is now commonly...
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