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Governance of public pension funds : lessons from corporate governance and international evidence [PDF]
An understanding of corporate governance theory can promote the adoption of appropriate governance tools to limit agency problems in public pension fund management. The absence of a market for corporate control hinders the translation of lessons from the
Hess, David, Impavido, Gregorio
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Public Sector Reforms in Modern Russia
RUDN Journal of Economics, 2011 The article deals with problems of the public sector performance in Russia, the main tasks, phases and challenges of the reform. The data of federative relations and municipal government’s features and results, the reform of housing and community ...
E V Ponomarenko
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Structural adjustment, ownership transformation, and size in Polish industry [PDF]
The authors argue that significant adjustment took place in Polish industry after Poland's 1990 reforms. They analyze data on two- and three-digit manufacturing industries, disaggregated by firm ownership and size.
Barbone, Luca +2 more
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Protecting the Viability of the Small Donor in Modern Elections [PDF]
, 2017 Campaign finance reform stands as one of the most important issues in today’s modern elections. From national to municipal contests, the influx of large donations places wealthy individuals—and interests—at odds with the average voter.
Miller, Ben
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RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2009 The article is devoted to the analysis of the prospects of development of institute of local self-management in conditions of finishing of municipal reform.
V V Kazakov
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A new model for market-based regulation of subnational borrowing - the Mexican approach [PDF]
Faced with weak sub-national finances that pose a risk to macroeconomic stability, Mexico's federal government in April 2000 established an innovative incentive framework to bring fiscal discipline to state and municipal governments.
Giugale, Marcelo +2 more
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Civil service reform and the World Bank [PDF]
The emphasis placed by the World Bank in recent years on the major overhaul of developing country economies has accentuated the importance of adequate public sector administrative capacity, especially within the central core of government, that is, the ...
Nellis, John, Nunberg, Barbara
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An international statistical survey of government employment and wages [PDF]
This paper complements a separate study in this Series ("Government Employment and Pay: A Global and Regional Perspective,"Policy Research Working Paper 1771, May, 1997) by providing the detailed statistical and econometric evidence on which that ...
de Tommaso, Giulio +2 more
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Government employment and pay : a global and regional perspective [PDF]
The authors try to replace myths about government pay and employment with reliable facts from a survey for about 100 countries in the early 1900s. The study also outlines the general nature of civil service problems in the different regions. Nevertheless,
de Tommaso, Giulio +2 more
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The political economy of privatization : an empirical analysis of bank privatization in Argentina [PDF]
The authors study the political economy of bank privatization in Argentina. The results of their study strongly support the hypothesis that political incentives affect the likelihood of privatization. They find that: a) provinces whose governors belonged
Clarke, George R.G., Cull, Robert
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