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The transition of corruption: From poverty to honesty

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2008

Measures of corruption and income are highly correlated across countries. We use prehistoric measures of biogeography as instruments for modern income levels. We find that our instrumented incomes explain the cross-country pattern of corruption just as well as do actual incomes. This result...

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Shifting financial flows to low-income countries: From official aid to private finance

Thomsen, Lotte - 2008

Within the last decades, the share of government aid in overall external financial flows to developing countries has decreased. It is estimated that between 75 and 85% of all current financial flows to developing countries derive from a variety of private sources, including remittances,...

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Culture, agency and power: Theoretical reflections on informal economic networks and political process

Meagher, Kate - 2009

Do network theory really offer a suitable concept for the theorization of informal processes of economic regulation and institutional change? This working paper challenges both essentialist and skeptical attitudes to networks through an examination of the positive and negative effects of network...

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Bono's Product (RED) initiative: wedding hard commerce and corporate social responsibility

Ponte, Stefano; Richey, Lisa Ann; Baab, Mike - 2008

Bono's Product (RED) initiative was created to raise awareness and money for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by teaming up with major corporations to market RED co-branded products. RED has been built upon the principle that 'hard commerce' can be an appropriate vector...

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Reforming global banking rules: Back to the future?

Lall, Ranjit - 2010

One of the most significant casualties of the recent fi nancial crisis has been the Basel II Accord, a set of proposals to regulate the international banking system drawn up by a committee of G10 banking supervisors between 1999 and 2004. Whether or not they view Basel II as a direct contributor...

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The end of a great illusion: Credit crunch and liquidity meltdown

Nesvetailova, Anastasia - 2008

This paper argues that the credit crunch is the result of a particular problem in the world financial system, that is …

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It's not about regulation...

Toporowski, Jan - 2009

The present discussions about the future of bank regulation, coming after a long period of bank deregulation, have a natural tendency to exaggerate the effectiveness of regulation. But those discussions are poorly rooted in the macroeconomic foundations of bank intermediation, including its...

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Crisis? What crisis? Anatomy of the regulatory failure in finance

Vestergaard, Jakob - 2008

Despite the global financial crisis and the prospect of severe economic recession, debates on future financial regulation take little if any notice of reasons why the previous regime of financial regulation failed so spectacularly. The paper identifies the key presumptions underlying efforts to...

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The evolving role of multilateral development banks: History and prospects

Lindbaek, Jannik; Pfeffermann, Guy; Gregory, Neil - In: EIB Papers 3 (1998) 2, pp. 60-81

countries, and to the experience of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank Group. …

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One hundred years after Bretton Woods: A future history of the World Bank Group

Klein, Michael - In: EIB Papers 3 (1998) 2, pp. 30-58

- the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD or World Bank) and … the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), precursor to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Their rationale … reflected the experience of the Great Depression of the 1930s, when world output collapsed amidst a contraction of trade and …

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