-wide initiatives under way to strengthen public sector transparency and accountability, and highlights the key structural areas likely … promoting structural reforms that help improve economic governance and thus reduce opportunities for rent-seeking behavior. The …

between governance and corruption, and emphasizes the high economic cost that corruption exacts. The pamphlet outlines how the …

, international reserve carrying costs, and international reserve accumulation needs are high. Governance appears to be a potential …

This paper examines the effects of IMF financial assistance on economic governance in developing countries, based on … panel data analyses of perceived governance indicators. It uses a two-stage approach to address possible endogeneity issues … governance. Specifically, the paper finds statistically robust results that IMF concessional programs through the Poverty …

-income countries. In low-income countries, governance and also other considerations suggest that the primary channel is factor … from a reduction in unsustainable fiscal deficits because of governance-related factor productivity responses that increase …

typically raise less revenue from domestic taxation, and that this creates governance problems because the lower domestic tax … that it is invariant to governance indicators …

at all levels, good governance, and institutional reforms have played a more significant role in raising economic output … and efficiency in Estonia than in Georgia which remains marred by various problems related to weak governance in the …

efficiently and effectively. To help countries improve the institutions and processes for infrastructure governance (the planning …

exogenous shock to the governance of governmen-owned banks: the unification of counties. County mergers lead to enforced …