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State Capacity and Path Dependence in Cape Verde's Supreme Audit Institution

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines state capacity and path dependence in the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of Cape Verde, focussing on the performance and governance of the Court of Auditors. Drawing on a mixed‐methods longitudinal design covering the period from 2010 to 2024, the analysis combines international governance indicators, documentary analysis,
Ana Lúcia Romão
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Private Pension Funds to Emergent Markets [PDF]

Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2007
The rapid growth of the private pension funds industry has potential quantitative and qualitative effects for the capital markets, especially for the emerging markets.
Iulia Ban
doaj   +1 more source

Pay as you Go System versus Fully Funded Pension in Peru

Ecos de Economía, 2013
The following paper analyses the sustainability of the Peruvian “Pay as You Go System” which is provided by the Government. In Peru, the “Pay as you Go System” coexists with Private Pension Funds or “Fully Funded Pension”.
Jorge B. Guillén, Ruben Mosqueda
doaj  

Supplementary Pension Funds in Hungary [PDF]

Hungary has about ten years history of pension privatization process and the Hungarian experience could be really instructive. This paper is focused on the supplementary pensions trying to prove that no kind of reform of state pension system is able to ...
Matits, Agnes
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
wiley   +1 more source

Private pension funds: passivity at active fund prices

Revista Contabilidade & Finanças, 2017
From 2005 to 2015, the total assets managed by open private pension funds increased more than six times in Brazil, where the Free Benefit Generating Plan (PGBL) and the Free Benefit Generating Life (VGBL) represent 90% of these assets.
Carlos Heitor Campani, Leonardo Mesquita de Brito   +1 more
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COMPARATIVE STUDY REGARDING THE EVOLUTIN OF PRIVATE PENSION FUNDS IN ROMANIA (SECOND PILLOR) [PDF]

The goal of this paper is to present the basic characteristics of the Romanian private pension system as well as its evolution during a period of 43 weeks from 20th June 2008 to 10th March 2009.
Seulean Victoria, Mos Maria Luiza
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Hidden Costs of Ethical Fashion: Sustainable Development Goals and Garment Worker Exploitation in Bangladesh

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Investments in Financial Assets Affect the Financial Performance of Pension Firms? Evidence from Nigeria

Revista Científica Profundidad Construyendo Futuro
Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) play an essential part in the management of pension funds that guarantee retirees’ comfortability and welfare after life of active service years.
Ginika Nnewogo LINUS, Lukman Adebayo-Oke ABDULRAUF, Adedeji Daniel GBADEBO, Joseph Olorunfemi AKANDE   +3 more
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