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Republic of Serbia; Report on Observance of Standards and Codes: Fiscal Transparency Module
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
This report provides an assessment of fiscal transparency practices in Serbia in relation to the requirements of the IMF Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency. Serbia has made solid advances in fiscal transparency in recent years, but there are still some major shortcomings. This report...
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Portugal; Fifth Review Under the Extended Arrangement and Request for Waivers of Applicability and Nonobservance of End-September Performance Criteria: Staff Report; Press Release...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
The staff report for the Fifth Review Under the Extended Arrangement and Request for Waivers of Applicability and Nonobservance of End-September Performance Criteria, prepared by a staff team of the IMF, following discussions that ended on September 11, 2012, with the officials of Portugal on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243945
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Republic of Kosovo; Request for Stand-By Arrangement
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
Kosovo’s economic performance has strengthened considerably, but structural deficiencies undermine export sector development and prospects for sustainable growth. The program seeks to restore fiscal sustainability and safeguard financial sector stability. Restoring fiscal sustainability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243958
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Final Report on Private Sector Development in the MED-11 Region
Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2012
This report is concerned with the analysis of privatization and private sector development for the eastern and southern … development and, to a greater or lesser extent, privatization of stateowned assets. However, there is a great deal of … divided into two groups: one, including Algeria, Libya, and Syria, where reforms promoting privatization and private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134475
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Privatization and Strategic Monitoring with Gaussian Priors
Disney, Richard; Ellis, Christopher J.; Nomer, Bulent - In: Public Finance Review 33 (2005) 3, pp. 318-342
This article describes the sale and optimal regulation of a sequence of public utilities, where monitoring of regulatory compliance is costly. The government is concerned with the revenue raised by successive privatizations as well as the standard objective of efficiency in production. The costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011135524
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The Egyptian Uprising and the Global Capitalist System
Aoude, Ibrahim - In: International Studies 49 (2012) 3-4, pp. 315-330
This article situates Egypt in the global capitalist system to understand better the causes of the uprising beyond the one that has been put forth primarily in the Western media, viz. the authoritarian, undemocratic Mubarak regime was the main source. While democracy is a critical instrument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011135640
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Why Privatize? The Decline of Public Ownership in India and its Impact on Industrial Performance
Majumdar, Sumit K. - In: South Asia Economic Journal 9 (2008) 2, pp. 293-336
. Privatization has not taken place in India in a significant way; nevertheless, the boundaries of the state as an industrial … substantial impact in enhancing performance. Thus, the role of privatization as a mechanism to enhance performance becomes moot in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011135977
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Economic Concentration and Conglomerates in Mexico
Hogenboom, Barbara - In: Journal of Developing Societies 20 (2004) 3-4, pp. 207-225
privatization, liberalization and economic integration. Special attention is paid to the attitude of corporate giants and the state …
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‘Monday will never be the same again’: the transformation of employment and work in a public-private partnership
Smith, Andrew - In: Work, Employment & Society 26 (2012) 1, pp. 95-110
organizations. There is a paucity of critical empirical research into new ‘partnership’ forms of privatization and the …
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A Political Economy View of ASSA Meetings: The U.S. Mexican Border
Barkin, David - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 36 (2004) 3, pp. 351-357
The URPE tour to Tijuana unveiled the social underpinnings of regional integration. Alongside the dance halls, cheap eateries, and “schlock†stores are the sexoservidoras and itinerant merchants hawking their wares. The city is privatizing public services while many of its industrial...
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