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China’s slowdown: the impact on Africa

China’s slowdown: the impact on Africa

blogs.ft.com –

"According to OECD research quoted in the S&P study, for every one per cent of Chinese economic growth, the GDP of sub-Saharan Africa’s low-income countries (e.g. Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda) increases by 0.3 per cent and GDP of middle-income countries (e.g. Angola, South Africa) increases by 0.4 per cent. "However, the party may now be over, or at least quietening down a bit. And the miners face the biggest hangover. The expected slow-down in infrastructure and construction investment in more...

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John Daly on April 25, 2013

No wahala: shaping business reform in Nigeria

No wahala: shaping business reform in Nigeria

guardian.co.uk –

In Nigeria the majority of the private sector are micro-sized businesses and many are not formally registered due to the 'wahala', a word which means 'stress', associated with the cost and process of registration, there is good news. Registering a new business need not be a maze of payments and regulations. DfID's business environment reform programme, GEMS3, which is run by Adam Smith International (ASI), recognises that a vibrant formal private sector is central to promoting growth and more...

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Amanda Williams on April 25, 2013

Types of Foreign Aid

Types of Foreign Aid

ftp.econ.au.dk –

Foreign aid is given for many purposes and different intentions, yet most studies treat aid flows as a unitary concept. This paper uses factor analysis to separate aid flows into different types. The main types can be interpreted as aid for economic purposes, social purposes, and reconstruction; a residual category captures remaining purposes. Estimating the growth effects of separable types of aid suggests that most aid has no effects while reconstruction aid has direct positive effects. more...

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D C on April 25, 2013

CEO Power, Compensation, and Governance

CEO Power, Compensation, and Governance

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This paper presents a contracting model of governance based on the premise that CEOs are the main promoters of governance change. CEOs use their power to extract higher pay or private benefits, and different governance structures are preferred by different CEOs as they favor one or the other type of compensation. The model explains why good country-wide investor protection breeds good firm governance and predicts a "race to the top" in firm-governance quality after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. more...

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D C on April 25, 2013

Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving

Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving

www2.vwl.wiso.uni-goettingen.de –

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid allocation as these determinants would point to different dependence structures. Using approaches from spatial econometrics and controlling for more...

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D C on April 25, 2013

The Governance of Knowledge

The Governance of Knowledge

mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de –

Knowledge has been defined as a major resource for development. Especially countries without natural resources have found this idea attractive and have embarked on development strategies to develop a knowledge-based economy. In doing so they may fall into a “knowledge trap”. The paper postulates an “epistemic backlash”, because an increase of knowledge leads to an even greater increase of ignorance, which is accompanied by an increase of risk and an increase of necessary research funds for the more...

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D C on April 25, 2013

Homecoming: Return and reintegration of irregular migrants from Nigeria

Homecoming: Return and reintegration of irregular migrants from Nigeria

Informed by new qualitative research, this report offers a set of recommendations to improve the process of returning irregular migrants from the EU to Nigeria, and the reintegration support available to them, to ensure that policy in this area is effective, efficient, humane and sustainable. Nigerians represent a sizeable portion of the millions of irregular migrants currently residing within the EU. This presents significant challenges to the Nigerian government as well as European more...

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D C on April 25, 2013

Solvency II Insurance Industry Market Europe

Solvency II Insurance Industry Market

rnrmarketresearch.com –

The Solvency II Directive can be considered the ‘gold standard’ in insurance regulation, as it requires insurers to address all the foreseeable risks that may affect their business structure. It is also being looked upon as a global benchmark in insurance regulation due to its comprehensive scope and structure. The predominant objective of this new regime is to stonewall the interests of policyholders and ultimate devisees, by adopting risk management at the core of insurance business processes more...

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Paul Thomen on April 25, 2013

Brussels Development Briefing on ‘Nutrition security in ACP countries: The role of Agriculture’

Reader: Nutrition security in ACP countries

brusselsbriefings.net –

On the 15th of June 2011, CTA organised a Briefing on ‘Nutrition security in ACP countries’ in cooperation with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), , the European Commission (DG DEVCO), the, Concord, the ACP Secretariat and various media. This Briefing discussed key challenges in nutrition in ACP countries and the role agriculture can play in addressing nutritional security. In particular, after discussing current food, agriculture and nutrition challenges, the more...

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CTA Brussels on April 25, 2013

SEA Change weekly newsletter – 2013 04 25

SEA Change weekly newsletter – 2013 04 25

seachangecop.org –

One more day and Mr. Glenn O’Neil will be talking on our webinar about presenting evaluation findings and evidence-based organizational learning! Do register here if you haven’t done so already, and read Topic 1 for more information on the webinar. Two courses of KODE are showcased in Topic 2 and two calls for abstracts and proposals in Topic 3 for the Africa Climate Conference 2013 and in Topic 4 for Best Climate Practices looking at best practice examples on climate change urban resilience more...

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Dennis Bours to Monitoring and Evaluation on April 25, 2013

Social Business Services in the Cloud Market 2013-2018

rnrmarketresearch.com –

Enterprise organizations are challenged with adopting optimized social business practices while integrating global teams, driving innovation, and increased productivity. The promise of Social Business Services in the Cloud is to transform customer information into a competitive advantage through a combination of insights and real-time customer experience/perceptions. Actionable information is derived through leveraging Big Data and related analytics. Deployment to date indicate great more...

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Gloria Buies on April 25, 2013

GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report: Perception surveys in fragile and conflict affected states

Perception surveys are widely used in OECD countries, and are increasingly used in developing countries and in fragile and conflict affected states (FCAS). Some results of these surveys have been published, and are publically available. However, many perception surveys are not published due to sensitivities around the questions and data collected. Perception surveys measure what respondents believe, think or feel and can produce information about: (a) Knowledge; (b) Experiences; (c) Beliefs more...

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GSDRC Applied K... on April 25, 2013

GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report: Mobile telephony innovation to improve education service outcomes

There is a wide and growing interest in the use of mobile telephony to improve education service outcomes. The first part of the report identifies the key lessons learned and recommendations for policy makers relating to the use of mobile telephony to improve education service outcomes, though with a general focus on mobile phone-assisted learning. The second part identifies a number of projects that have taken place or are taking place in post-conflict environments which make use of, in some more...

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GSDRC Applied K... on April 25, 2013

A Step Forward :More Countries Present Action Plans at OGP Ministrial Strering Committee

A Step Forward :More Countries Present Action Plans at OGP Ministrial Strering Committee

blog.opengovpartnership.org –

This is an exciting week for the Open Government Partnership as more countries present their action plans to their international partners and representatives of civil society in a major step toward full participation. From their commitments we eagerly anticipate more action to establish transparency, civic participation, andaccountability.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 25, 2013

3 Kinds of Government Open Data: Ready, Easy and Hard

3 Kinds of Government Open Data: Ready, Easy and Hard

govloop.com –

"There is likely some data that's already posted on the web. The problem in most cases is that it is located in multiple places. I've done some searching for Durham City and County data, but it's been more difficult than I imagined to identify that information based on a quick Google search. As a result, we believe the low-hanging fruit with the county is to have them point us to all the datasets that they know are already out there on the web so that we can consolidate them in a single more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 25, 2013

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