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developing countries, their more malleable governance contexts may be more influenced by the effects of emerging technologies …
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but also by considering corporate governance. It takes as axiomatic that each of the key players in the corporate … governance process (such as shareholders, directors, executive managers, and internal and external auditors) is responsible for … overview of the spectrum of corporate governance and risk management principles, it is not aimed at the narrow technical …
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Committee guidance on the governance of bank subsidiaries, and 2) a selection of recommendations from a past International … Finance Corporation (IFC) publication on governance of banks in Southeastern Europe. Finally, the list of references consulted …
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The South African government offers various support mechanisms to support Eskom, the state-owned electric utility, and the independent power producers in providing low-cost electricity, including credit and payment guarantees. Guarantees constitute contingent liabilities to the government and...
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-driven improvement in risk management capabilities for equilibrium rates of search and compliance …
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This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course implemented across public junior high schools in 21 Colombian cities. Six months after finishing the course, the study finds a 0.4 standard deviation improvement in knowledge,...
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The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home....
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This paper presents the results of a field experiment in rural Sindh, Pakistan, where half of the school-age children (ages 6-10 years) are out of school. The study tests simple and low-intensity approaches to strengthen engagement of communities with schools: face-to-face dialogue at externally...
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This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...
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Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange and employment across developing economies. A scant literature has explored the relationship between tourism and the advent of the internet. This paper contributes to the tourism-trade literature and studies the empirical relationship between...
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