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governance and political development; integration and economic development; ecology and sustainable development; equity and human …
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This document was prepared by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the "Confronting Natural Disasters: A Matter of Development" Seminar held in New Orleans on 25 and 26 March 2000. Vulnerability reduction is a key...
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While methodologies and survey techniques recorded progress over the years, corruption measurement remains a many-headed monster. Since 2003 and the first publication of Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer, researchers have access to population's feeling about the corruption...
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For the last thirty years, port governance has been marked by a new level of complexity which has resulted in the … modes of governance and is now attempting to explain how they are linked to port performance Models of port governance … on public decision-making and the institutional models applied in port governance in 7 European countries and Canada. It …
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What does governance mean for the World Bank and to what extent does the organization succeed in diffusing the paradigm … worldwide? The World Bank primarily focused on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s, and progressively moved to its … knowledge on this specific issue. The potential influence of the World Bank's main governance indicators: Country Policy and …
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We explore the consequences of bad governance and corruption for public debt and welfare in a model of policymaking …
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We compare the performance and risk of a sample of 181 large banks from 15 European countries over the 1999-2004 period and evaluate the impact of alternative ownership models, together with the degree of ownership concentration, on their profitability, cost efficiency and risk. Three main...
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The Millennium Development Goals were formalized in the Millennium Declaration, which was endorsed by 189 Heads of State and Government at the United Nations Millennium Summit of 2000. Achieving these Goals through sustainable growth and advances in key areas such as education, health,...
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We study the problem faced by firms that invest in a foreign country characterized by weak governance. Our focus is on … study the determinants of the quality of governance and whether and how political risk insurance of foreign direct … investments improve upon it. We find that it does not always improve upon all governance indicators. It always decreases the …
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integration at the cluster level. Moreover, the literature on clusters has not focused on the role that governance may play in … analysing the role of cluster governance in knowledge management. An empirical study of two small French firm clusters was … characterized by distinct knowledge management processes. In both cases, governance was necessary in order to support knowledge …
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