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Policy Reforms and Institutional Weakness : Closing The Gap.

Llanto, Gilberto M.; Gonzalez, Eduardo T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

The promise and potential of the Philippine economy has remained unrealized notwithstanding the countrys talented labor force, skilled professionals and relatively abundant resources. What ails the Philippines? This paper argues that the incompetence and downright corruption of Philippine...

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Misaligned Incentives and Mortgage Lending in Asia

Green, Richard; Mariano, Robert; Pavlov, Andrey; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

the potential importance of securitization in Asia because of its possible role in increasing transparency of the …

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Finance, State Capacity, Privatisation, and Transparency in SE Asian Higher Education

Welch, Anthony R - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

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Accounting in a Country : The Case of Pakistan

Ashraf, Junaid; Ghani, Waqar I. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

Our paper examines the origins, growth, and the development of accounting practices and disclosures in Pakistan and the factors that influenced them. We traced the early days of accounting in the Indian subcontinent and the British colonial influence over the accounting of newly independent...

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Informal Values and Formal Policies - A study of Japanese Technology Policy and Significance for India

Bhaduri, Saradindu; Chandra, Janashruti - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

(Kagakugijutsu Hakusho) published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). We then endeavour to …

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Schooling and Political Participation Revisited

Chor, Davin; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is affected by country characteristics. We introduce a focus on a set of variables - namely factor endowments - which inuence the relative productivity of human capital in political versus production activities....

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Keeping Dictators Honest : the Role of Population Concentration

Doy, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and … threat to a dictatorship, inducing it to yield to more redistribution and better governance. We bring this centered concept …

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The State of Local Governance and Public Services in the Decentralized Indonesia in 2006 : Findings from the Governance and Decentralization Survey 2 (GDS2)

Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

The Governance and Decentralization Survey (GDS) aims to evaluate the implementation of local governance and … Governance Reform Project (ILGRP), and Urban Sector Development and Reform Program (USDRP), which were accommodated in the GDS2 …

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Governance, Institutions, and Regional Infrastructure in Asia

De, Prabir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This study is a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the linkages between governance, institutions, and regional … infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and institutions are crucial for regional infrastructure development … : every one point improvement in governance results in a 1 to 1.5 point rise in regional infrastructure. Countries (and …

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Moving Out of Poverty : The Case of Gura, Kabupaten Halmahera Utara

Mawardi, Sulton; Akhmadi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

The selection criteria for research locations for Moving Out of Poverty (MOP) in Indonesia uses two main variables : the level of conflict intensity and level of economic growth. The village of Gura in Kabupaten Halmahera, in the Province of Maluku Utara, represents the sample area with a high...

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