Real Effects of Private Country-by-Country Disclosure

Country Evaluation: BANGLADESH Country Evaluation: BULGARIA Country Evaluation: CHINA Country Evaluation: EGYPT Country Evaluation: ETHIOPIA Country Evaluation: JAMAICA Country Evaluation: MOZAMBIQUE Country Evaluation: NIGERIA Country Evaluation: UKRAINE Country Evaluation: SYRIA Country Evaluation: TURKEY Country Evaluation: VIETNAM Country Evaluation: YEMEN

Public and Private Insurance Cross country evidence and a model

Insurance provision di¤ers across developed countries both in terms of total amounts expended, and of whether it is supplied via public schemes or private contractual arrangements. We propose a model where insurance is limited by the need to elicit unobservable e¤ort; entails implementation costs that may di¤er for public and private entities; and tends to be more desirable when liquidity const...

Modelling Country Reliability in Public Private Partnership Infrastructure Proejcts

Most Public Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects especially in emerging markets carry a high amount of economic foreign exchange (FX) exposure. Risk mitigation instruments (RMI) are frequently implemented by governments to compensate FX loss in the Special Purpose Company (SPC). The experience of many investors is an underestimation of the risk that governments would refuse to read...

Lowering private investor risk to build a healthier country.

A slew of highly inno vative, private local and international, socially conscious companies are starting to improve health care outcomes in southern Africa – with some garnering investor returns of between 8% and 10% on debt funds and up to 35% in equity returns. This emerged in a panel discussion entitled ‘Investing for impact’ during the Inclusive Healthcare Innovation Summit organised late l...

Country-of-origin Effects on Product Evaluations

This article reviews the literature regarding the effect of country of origin on buyer evaluations of products. The issue is important for countries (especially resource-poor, developing countries) that need to increase manufactured exports and for firms that source products in countries different from where sold. Marketing inferences are drawn, and implications for future research are develope...