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The Institutional Donor Perspective
2018This chapter considers the perspective of institutional donors like foundations and government in right-fit monitoring and evaluation. Institutional donors may have different data needs than the organizations they fund. This may occur when a donor wants to use the same metrics across its entire portfolio; when a donor supports organizations addressing ...
Mary Kay Gugerty, Dean Karlan
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2011
Entrepreneurship has been identified as one of the main driving forces of economic development (Thurik and Wennekers, 2004) and as omnipresent in a society. Entrepreneurship is not “the particular feature of a particular social group … (but) it is inherent in every action and burdens every actor” (Mises, 1949: 252).
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Entrepreneurship has been identified as one of the main driving forces of economic development (Thurik and Wennekers, 2004) and as omnipresent in a society. Entrepreneurship is not “the particular feature of a particular social group … (but) it is inherent in every action and burdens every actor” (Mises, 1949: 252).
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Development: Institutional Perspectives
2017There are three key literatures on the political economy of development that all emphasize the importance of institutions, but in different and somewhat contradictory ways. These literatures focus on developmental states, good governance, and political economic pathways. The developmental states literature is based largely on case studies of East Asian
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Perspectives on Institutional Change
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005Institutions embrace rules of law and other norms governing human interaction. They help us to channel human behavior in certain ways and not in others. Necessarily, they also embrace the belief-systems that stand behind and animate the rules. They help to define social expectations and to set standards.
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Institutional Perspectives on Sociology
American Journal of Sociology, 1995Persistent fiscal constraints in higher education pose special risks for sociology. The organization of academia gives all departments problems in self-governance. But these problems are intensified for sociology by features that can be sources of both strength and weakness (e.g., an affinity for students with agendas of reform and radical criticism ...
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Perspectives on Institutional Theory
2015A significant portion of the Australian public sector has undergone quite a dramatic transformation in recent times. A number of government departments and national enterprises have either been privatized and subjected to the rigors of the open market and the attendant requirement for increased efficiency that this necessarily involves, or corporatized,
Chris Bilney, Soma Pillay
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Energy Decentralization : institutional perspectives
202114 papers address the issue of energy decentralization providing a unique outlook at emerging citizens' and local energy renewable projects on five different continents. The special issue was coordinated by Magali Dreyfus (Lead Editor) and Anna Berka.
Dreyfus, Magali, Berka, Anna
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Political Institutions: Legal Perspectives
1998Abstract Questions the omission of law and legal perspectives in political science and advocates its relevance and overlap in two country examples: the USA and the UK. Legal politics, the role of the judiciary, public law and administration, and the constitutional politics of America are provided as examples, intended to generate future ...
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An Integrated Institutional Perspective
2014Abstract This chapter develops the theoretical framework used to inform the study, which is based largely on neoinstitutional theory. This monograph recognizes that a holistic perspective and richer insights are needed when examining complex issues associated with the adoption of internationally acceptable practices.
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Seigniorage in Institutional Perspective
2017In this book I take an institutional perspective on one of the oldest issues in economics: seigniorage, i.e. the revenue from the supply of legal tender currency. The issue is in fact older than the discipline of economics as an independent field of research.
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