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`Institutions and Development is a landmark contribution to our understanding of economic development, It combines the author's extensive experience w...
New institutional economics (NIE) is a powerful tool for understanding real world phenomena. This Advanced Introduction explores NIE’s answers to fu...
Disappointment with insider trading in Russia, with voucher privatization in the Czech Republic, and with the privatization of infrastructure in many ...
The Lessons of Experience
Governance, as defined by the World Bank in its 1992 report, Governance and Development, is the manner in which power is exercised in the management o...
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Evidence from China
May 1998 On average, performance contracts do not improve productivity in China's state enterprises and may even reduce it. But when they contain all ...
Transparent, rule-based decisionmaking is important to maintaining public trust in regulated infrastructure. The Buenos Aires water and sanitation con...
Even managers critical of Pakistan's new performance evaluation system consider its targeting and bonus system a powerful incentive to improve efficie...
The Current State of the Debate
The paper documents the case of Uganda's telecommunications reform. Uganda is one of only two countries in Africa that decided to privatize telecommun...
This paper suggests ways to improve the efficiency of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) by examining the special circumstances and constraints that are c...
Lessons from World Bank Lending
The state-owned sector in developing countries tends to be large, diverse, and often - when the Bank gets involved - in a state of illiquidity or on t...
This book tries to systematize the lessons learned in the past two decades of public enterprise reform to correct the perceived deficiencies of state-...
A Study of Twenty-five Babies. Personality manifestations
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written b...
A Study of Twenty-five Babies. Intellectual development
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...
Performance contracts (PCs) - contracts signed between the government and state enterprise managers - have been used widely in developing countries. C...
On average, performance c ......