supports analytic studies, policy relevant research, training and outreach activities to assist developing countries in the design and implementation of policies to foster growth, democracy, and the rule of law. Abstract China's remarkable development poses a problem for theories that have stressed the importance of institutions producing " good governance " and minimizing corruption. As a poss...

W hy has eradicating hunger and poverty proved difficult despite its being a declared goal of the international development community for more than half a century? Why has the number of hungry people increased in recent years? Why is poverty particularly persistent in Sub-Saharan Africa? Why do economically successful developing countries in Asia and Latin America have regions lagging in eradic...

Rents tend to be relatively high in developing countries and also very fungible, so that differences in the scale of the rent and in its distribution among economic agents profoundly affect the nature of the political state and the development trajectory. This paper identifies two basic trajectories to a high-income democracy linked to the scale and deployment of rents. Low-rent countries tend ...

In June 2006, the Swiss Parliament made two important decisions with regards to public registers’ governance and individuals’ identification. It adopted a new law on the harmonisation of population registers in order to simplify statistical data collection and data exchange from around 4’000 decentralized registers, and it also approved the introduction of a Unique Person Identifier (UPI). The ...

There is now significant policy and academic interest in the governance of science and technology for sustainable development. In recent years this has come to include a growing emphasis on issues of public understanding of science and innovative processes of deliberative and inclusive policy-making around controversial technologies such as nuclear power and agricultural biotechnology. Concern ...

exploring the links between law and economic development 2 Global interactions increasingly rely on law to govern them. Today, numerous rules dominate the interactions between states and non-state parties. International courts and dispute settlement mechanisms are in place to ensure compliance with commonly agreed norms. International Law, however, is complex and often lacks universal acceptanc...

Good implementation of corporate governance principles is considered as an important component for stability and soundness of a financial institution. An extensive body of literature has reviewed the effects of corporate governance on the performance of corporations. The majority of these studies have found more corporate values for implementing the principles. Therefore, the assessment of comp...

resumé Enhanced cooperation is often regarded as being a way out of EU decisionmaking deadlock and as a major possibility of proceeding with European integration in selected areas. Although the mechanism has been in place since the Treaty of Amsterdam, enhanced cooperation has only recently become a reality, in two policy fields: divorce law and the single EU patent. Using these two cases, in t...

This paper attempts to draw a synthetic picture of corporate governance in transition with emphasis on the efficiency implications of corporate governance, taking into account a) the heterogeneity of managerial skills, b) the diversity of restructuring tasks and financial situations of firms and c) political constraints. The focus is on the efficiency effects generated by the different kinds of...