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Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms exhibit such positive deviance. These theories...
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abridged version of the story offers instructors a classroom case to discuss leaders and leadership in governance reform. …
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cross-country survey on people's opinions on employment protection legislation-an area where reform has proven to be … personal pay-offs. A randomized information treatment confirms that beliefs explain views about reform, but beliefs can change …
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funds. With the most recent health care reform (GKV-Wettbewerbsstärkungsgesetz GKV-WSG), a range of new products have been …
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The Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass … the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010. Implementing reform has resulted … power sector. The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the reform, isolating the major challenges facing it, and …
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Mexico's low-carbon technology perspectives show lack of coherence with the rising ambition in climate change commitments, for which Mexico is internationally praised. The comparison of two recent energy reforms, corresponding to two administrations, explains this lack of coherence by, on the...
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Spain's export performance strengthened after the global financial crisis, and exports now represent more than a third of GDP. This paper argues that several factors contributed to that achievement: external demand, supported by greater diversification of destination markets; enhanced export...
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In this study, we assess the size of the government wage bill and employment in the member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union and their implications for fiscal sustainability and the adequacy of public service delivery. Over the period 2005 to 2015 their wage bill (as a percentage...
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have powerful redistributive implications. This helps to explain why debates over land law reform in general, and over …
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redistribution and retraining - that arguably characterize many reform packages. We analyse the interaction of compensatory … passage of even those reform policies that are expected to increase output and to benefit a majority of the population …. Conversely, it may be possible for an economic reform to win political support in the absence of compensatory redistribution …
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