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With the end of China’s 11th Five-Year Plan approaching, this paper analyzes sub-national governments' implementation strategies to meet national energy efficiency targets. Previous research focuses on the way governance practices and decision-making structures shape implementation outcomes,...
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to a flagging commitment to the ambitious goals of the Convention or to the considerable complexities of corruption, has …-proclaimed global civil society organisation established to combat corruption, has warned that ‘[u]nless enforcement is sharply … increased, existing support could well erode’ (2010b, 8). This chapter considers the scope of the challenge of corruption (part …
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has been administered in 2015, this article investigates how corruption, as a sign of institutional dysfunctionality, is …, corruption might have a deterring effect on energy efficiency investments by firms …
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economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality …. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when they come from countries with low differences in corruption with Turkey …. Conversely, FDI flows are negatively affected when there exists a large difference in corruption between the investing country …
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Potential economic benefits of integrity and anti-corruption policies seem large. Nevertheless, much of the existing … paper reviews OECD’s involvement in integrity and anti-corruption agenda as well as available indicators of integrity and … anti-corruption policies and outcomes. It outlines avenues for future analysis that include assessment of public …
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While the effects of corruption on bilateral trade have been relatively well explored, its effect on the composition of … trading partners has not been studied. In this paper, we argue that corruption in a country is likely to impose asymmetric … costs on its trading partners depending on their characteristics. As a result, as the level of corruption in a country …
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This report reviews the literature on the impact of real-time information provision on consumer decision-making. In addition, it describes the results of a study in which about 7000 households in Ontario, Canada were provided with in-home displays linked to smart meters that provided real-time...
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The paper investigates how tax rates, corruption and institutional aspects of the labour market influence the size of … corruption, as well as the establishment of a new concept and variable, the subjective tax rate. Alternative regression …. -- Taxation ; corruption ; labour market ; hidden economy …
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This paper uses panel data of OECD countries during the period 1995–2003 to examine how corruption affects fertility …. The Corruption Perceptions Index is used to measure the degree of corruption. Fixed effects IV estimation and the Arellano … political corruption underlies desirable conditions for child rearing in developed countries. …
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