Investor activists have waged a campaign to increase corporate political spending disclosure and board oversight since 2004, through shareholder resolutions filed for consideration at corporate annual meetings. In 2010, average support for these resolutions reached 30 percent - an unusually high...

Corporate accountability and disclosure of political expenditures appears to be increasing, with the boards of 31 percent of S&P 500 companies now explicitly overseeing such spending, compared to 23 percent in 2010. However, this increased oversight and transparency does not appear to correlate...

A functional weakness of the training market is the extreme difficulty with which potential purchasers of "training" can gauge the quality of training programs in advance of payment. However, no training provider would allow a customer to delay payment of course fees until the course has been...

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of current practices in the provision of business development services (BDS) to small and microentrepreneurs in developing countries. The document is meant to serve as a resource for Bank staff and other development practitioners who play a...

El propósito de este estudio es el de proporcionar una visión general de las prácticas actuales en el suministro de Servicios de Desarrollo Empresarial (SDE) a pequeños y micro empresarios en los países en vías de desarrollo. Por servicios de desarrollo empresarial nos referimos a...

El propósito de este estudio es el de proporcionar una visión general de las prácticas actuales en el suministro de servicios de desarrollo empresarial (SDE) a pequeños y micro empresarios en los países en vías de desarrollo. Por servicios de desarrollo empresarial nos referimos a...

A functional weakness of the training market is the extreme difficulty with which potential purchasers of "training" can gauge the quality of training programs in advance of payment. However, no training provider would allow a customer to delay payment of course fees until the course has been...

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of current practices in the provision of business development services (BDS) to small and microentrepreneurs in developing countries. The document is meant to serve as a resource for Bank staff and other development practitioners who play a...