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Support policies for renewables

This paper frames the transition towards clean energies as a sequential process of instrument choice and instrument change. First, regulators decide how to initiate the transition away from fossil energies. Here, support policies for renewable...

  • Environmental policy
  • Management
  • Renewable energy
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Good business practices improve productivity in Myanmar’s manufacturing sector

We look into the relationship between business practices and enterprise productivity using panel data with matched employer and employee information from Myanmar. The data show that micro, small, and medium-size enterprises in Myanmar typically do...

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  • Productivity
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Overcoming the Limits of Institutional Reform in Uganda

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are ‘best in class’ in Africa...

  • Administrative law
  • Government accountability
  • Institutional economics
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Risk Experiments in Gains and Losses

The aim of this paper is to expand our knowledge on risk aversion among the poor by conducting experiments that do not only test risk aversion in small and large stakes but also in risky gains and risky losses. To our knowledge, this is the first...

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  • Poor
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The Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance
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by Laixiang Sun 2001

by Laixiang Sun There is a widespread belief that the only efficient ownership structure for a market economy is one in which firms are owned by...

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  • Employee ownership
  • Management
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The Management of Drylands

Part of Book The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

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  • Land use
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Analysis and Management of Watersheds

Part of Book The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

  • Conservation of natural resources
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  • Water
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Extractives for development (E4D)

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