What do state-owned development financial institutions (SODFIs) in South Africa do?

What Do State-Owned Development Banks Do? Evidence from BNDES, 2002–09

SERGIO G. LAZZARINI , ALDO MUSACCHIO , RODRIGO BANDEIRA-DE-MELLO e and ROSILENE MARCON f,* a Insper Institute of Education and Research, São Paulo, Brazil b International Business School-Brandeis University, Waltham, USA Harvard Business School, Boston, USA National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, USA Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EAESP), São Paulo, Brazil Universidade do Vale do Itaja...

Do remittances promote financial development in Africa?

The paper seeks to establish whether or not remittances promoted financial developments and explore the traceable causality between remittances and financial developments in some countries in Africa. We examine the association between remittances received and how they affect the availability of credit to private sector, bank deposits intermediated by financial institutions and money supply. We ...

What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?

What Do Labor Market Institutions Do? The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involvin...

What Role Do Legal Institutions Play in Development?

National Curriculum: What Do International Experiences Say?

The conceptions, practices and efforts of some education systems in ten countries and four continents of the world, in area of national curriculum, have been reviewed and analyzed in this inquiry to represent a brief look of their experiences and obtain some guidelines for delineating and developing national curriculum. The methodology in this inquiry has been descriptive and analytical researc...