CSD Brief No 4: The Outstanding Agenda for Political Party Reform in Bulgaria
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
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Release : 2004
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Author : WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241563702
Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821372327
Regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business are measured: starting a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business. 'Doing Business 2008' updates all 10 sets of indicators, ranks countries on their overall ease of doing business, and analyzes reforms to business regulation - identifying which countries are improving their business environment the most and which ones slipped. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why. 'Doing Business 2008' focuses on how complex business regulations dampen investment, growth and job creation in all businesses, and especially opportunities for women entrepreneurs.
Author : Raymond J. Struyk
Publisher : Open Society Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : 9789639719002
Practical advice for policy institutes and consulting agencies.
Author : Barry Buzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521891110
This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.
Author : Luc De Wulf
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2005-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821383728
Trade integration contributes substantially to economic development and poverty alleviation. In recent years much progress was made to liberalize the trade regime, but customs procedures are often still complex, costly and non-transparent. This situation leads to misallocation of resources. 'Customs Modernization Handbook' provides an overview of the key elements of a successful customs modernization strategy and draws lessons from a number of successful customs reforms as well as from customs reform projects that have been undertaken by the World Bank. It describes a number of key import procedures, that have proved particularly troublesome for customs administrations and traders, and provides practical guidelines to enhance their efficiency. The Handbook also reviews the appropriate legal framework for customs operations as well as strategies to combat corruption.
Author : Transparency International
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Banks and banking
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Compiled by the world's leading independent anti-corruption organisation, this work provides a comprehensive overview of corruption around the globe. The special focus of this report is political corruption.
Author : Anwar Shah
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821363300
The development literature is replete with failed attempts to reform public sector governance in developing countries. This book, written by Matthew Andrews and Anwar Shah, argues that technocratic approaches to public sector reform are unlikely to succeed in the future as well. Instead citizen empowerment through a rights-based approach to demand accountability from their governments and a results-based culture of governance holds significant potential for success. The authors present a comprehensive framework to accomplish these goals through institutional reforms, and they highlight examples from international practices in which elements of such approaches have been implemented. This important new series represents a response to several independent evaluations in recent years that have argued that development practitioners and policy makers dealing with public sector reforms in developing countries and, indeed, anyone with a concern for effective public governance could benefit from a synthesis of newer perspectives on public sector reforms. This series distills current wisdom and presents tools of analysis for improving the efficiency, equity, and efficacy of the public sector. Leading public policy experts and practitioners have contributed to the series.
Author : Danijela Dolenec
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 178552108X
Josip Broz Tito's saying that 'one should not hold on to the law like a drunken man holds on to a fence' remains a valid piece of popular wisdom today, encapsulating the problem of weak rule of law in Southeast European societies. This book poses the question of why democratisation in Southeast Europe disappointed initial expectations, and claims that it is caused by the dominance of authoritarian parties over regime change. Their rule established nondemocratic governance practices that continue to subvert rule of law principles, more than twenty years after the collapse of communism. The unique contribution of this book is in providing empirical evidence for the argument that post-socialist transformation proceeded in a double movement, whereby advances to formal democratic institutions were subverted through nondemocratic rule. This misfit helps explain why improvements to formal democratic institutions did not result in expected democratisation advances.