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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
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Macroeconomic Change, and Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: The Indian Experience, 1991-2010
Reddy, Kotapati Srinivasa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Asian emerging market-India for the period 1991 through 2010. I also compare the market in India among the BRIC economies … and financial reforms in India. Further, I highlight the internationalization process of Indian firms by supporting the … data on parent corporations and foreign affiliates. I eventually draw conclusions from India’s share as a percentage of the …
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments: Insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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The Case Against Mandatory Annual Director Elections and Shareholders' Meetings
Sjostrom, William K. - 2006
The article examines the mandatory requirement under state corporate law and stock exchange listing standards that public corporations hold annual shareholders' meetings for the election of directors. Specifically, I question the value of requiring corporations to (1) elect directors annually,...
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Open Offers and Shareholders Earnings – Evidence from India
Nangia, Vinay Kumar; Agrawal, Rajat; Reddy, K. Srinivasa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
the emerging markets era, say India. …
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Firm size, sovereign governance, and value creation: Evidence from the acquirer size effect
Humphery-Jenner, Mark; Powell, Ronan - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 26 (2014) C, pp. 57-77
, including increased market power and political connections. We use a sample of 17,647 takeovers from 45 countries to examine the … governance countries do takeovers that generate higher stock-returns and increase post-takeover operating performance. Their …
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Growth and Development….. Inclusive Growth: What went wrong with Development?
George, Justine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper critically reviews the debate of ‘growth and development’ since 1950 in order to place and conceptualize the term inclusive growth. The paper argues that the basic objective of inclusive growth is the smooth functioning of nation state and to avoid socio economic and political...
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Review of the role of government in East Asian economic development, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997, Aoki, Kim and Okuno - Fujiwara (editors)
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This is an important and ambitious book but its timing could not be more unfortunate. It is the result of a two year research project co-sponsored by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) at the World Bank and by the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. The contributors...
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Managing Development and Public Policy: A Personal View
Cobbe, Jim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
A brief and very personal overview of some important issues in the management of development, with particular attention to Indonesia and education.
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Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy
H. Brooks, Douglas; Hasan, Rana; Lee, Jong-Wha; H. Son, Hyun - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2010
There are significant income and nonincome development gaps around the world. Closing these gaps will require not only increasing and sustaining economic growth in low-income regions, but also policies that close nonincome development gaps directly. Governments need to support private investment...
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