Building Institutions For Markets

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0195216075

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Building Institutions for Markets by World Bank Pdf

'Institutions fix the confines of and impose form upon the activities of human beings.' --Walton Hamilton, 'Institutions', 1932. The 'World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets' undertakes the complex issue of the basic institutions needed for markets to function properly. This year's 'World Development Report' goes beyond a simple examination of institutional structure and explores the functions of institutions. Recognizing that one size does not fit all, the report asks what do all institutions which support markets do? The answer is simple: Institutions channel information, define and enforce property rights, and increase or prevent competition. Understanding the functions that current institutions and their proposed replacements would provide is the first step. The report contends that once you have identified the institutional functions that are missing, you can then build effective institutions by following some basic principles: - Complement what exists already - in terms of other supporting institutions, human capacities, and technology. - Innovate to suit local norms and conditions. Experimenting with new structures can provide a country with creative solutions that work. - Connect communities of market players through open information flows and open trade. Open trade and information flows create demand for new institutions and improve the functioning of existing structures. - Compete among jurisdictions, firms, and individuals. Increased competition creates demand for new institutions as old ones lose their effectiveness. It also affects how people behave - improving institutional quality. These broad lessons and careful analyses, which links theory with pertinent evidence, are provided in the report. 'World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets' contains selected 'World Development Indicators'.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195216067

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World Development Report 2002 by World Bank Pdf

Three billion people will be added to the world ' s population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today already live on less than $2 a day-almost all in developing countries. Ensuring these people have access to productive work and a better quality of life is the core development challenge of the first half of this century. Growth could itself be jeopardized over the longer term, unless a transformation of society and the management of the environment are addressed integrally with economic growth. Now in its 25th edition, this year ' s World Development Report examines, over a 50 year period, the relationship between competing policy objectives of reducing poverty, maintaining growth, improving social cohesion, and protecting the environment. The World Development Report 2003 emphasizes that many good policies have been identified but not implemented due to distributional issues and barriers to developing better institutions. The Report reviews institutional innovations that might help overcome these barriers and stresses that ensuring economic growth and improved management of the planet ' s ecosystem requires a reduction in poverty and inequality at all levels: local, national, and international. As in previous years, the report contains an appendix of selected indicators from the World Development Indicators.

Author : Janine Berg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781784712105

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Labour Markets, Institutions and Inequality by Janine Berg Pdf

Labour market institutions, including collective bargaining, the regulation of employment contracts and social protection policies, are instrumental for improving the well-being of workers, their families and society. In many countries, these instituti

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Access to Finance
ISBN : 0821350161

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World Development Report 2002 by Anonim Pdf

Markets should give incentives to engage in wider trade, forge the ability to use resources, and skills fully, and provide the opportunity to increase incomes, and accumulate assets. Despite underlying problems, many people in both developed, and developing countries do engage in productive, and rewarding market activity, for income from market participation is the key to economic growth for nations, and to reducing poverty for individuals. This report is about enhancing opportunities for poor people in markets, and empower them, provided regulatory frameworks, law enforcement, and organizational promotion accompany market transactions. Hence, building institutions that support the development of markets is the primary focus of this report, analyzing what institutions do to promote growth, and facilitate access, and suggesting how to build effective institutions. In understanding what drives institutional change, the report emphasizes the importance of history, highlighting the need to ensure effective institutions through: a design that complements existing institutions, human capabilities, and available technologies; innovations to identify both institutions that work, and those that do not; communities of market players connected through open information, and trade; and, the promotion of competition among jurisdictions, firms, and individuals. This overview is a presage to the World Development Report 2002, which shows that institutional strength ensures stable, and inclusive growth.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195216067

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World Development Report 2002 by World Bank Pdf

Three billion people will be added to the world ' s population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today already live on less than $2 a day-almost all in developing countries. Ensuring these people have access to productive work and a better quality of life is the core development challenge of the first half of this century. Growth could itself be jeopardized over the longer term, unless a transformation of society and the management of the environment are addressed integrally with economic growth. Now in its 25th edition, this year ' s World Development Report examines, over a 50 year period, the relationship between competing policy objectives of reducing poverty, maintaining growth, improving social cohesion, and protecting the environment. The World Development Report 2003 emphasizes that many good policies have been identified but not implemented due to distributional issues and barriers to developing better institutions. The Report reviews institutional innovations that might help overcome these barriers and stresses that ensuring economic growth and improved management of the planet ' s ecosystem requires a reduction in poverty and inequality at all levels: local, national, and international. As in previous years, the report contains an appendix of selected indicators from the World Development Indicators.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821322176

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Banking Institutions in Developing Markets: Building strong managememt and responding to change by Anonim Pdf

Describes how to run a sound and efficient bank in a liberalized financial environment.Also available:Banking Institutions in Developing Markets. Volume 2: Interpreting Financial StatementsChris J. Barltrop and Diana McNaughton152 pages / (ISBN 0-8213-2218-4) / Stock No. 12218 / $20.00 / Price code S2

Author : World Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 128008734X

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World Development Report 2002 by World Bank Pdf

Author : World Bank Publications
Publisher : World Bank
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0821350250

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World Development Report 2002 (Arabic) by World Bank Publications Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:795848101

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World Development Report 2002 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry G. Broadman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 082135776X

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Building Market Institutions in South Eastern Europe by Harry G. Broadman Pdf

Author : Martin Kellermann
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464813726

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Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets by Martin Kellermann Pdf

In a modern world with rapidly growing international trade, countries compete less based on the availability of natural resources, geographical advantages, and lower labor costs and more on factors related to firms' ability to enter and compete in new markets. One such factor is the ability to demonstrate the quality and safety of goods and services expected by consumers and confirm compliance with international standards. To assure such compliance, a sound quality infrastructure (QI) ecosystem is essential. Jointly developed by the World Bank Group and the National Metrology Institute of Germany, this guide is designed to help development partners and governments analyze a country's quality infrastructure ecosystems and provide recommendations to design and implement reforms and enhance the capacity of their QI institutions.

Author : David A. J. Macey,William Pyle,Stephen K. Wegren
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739107356

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Building Market Institutions in Post-communist Agriculture by David A. J. Macey,William Pyle,Stephen K. Wegren Pdf

Editors David Macey, William Pyle, and Stephen Wegren, with a host of world-leading agrarian analyst and practitioners, unravel the shortcomings surrounding post-communist agrarian reform and answers how and why particular policies were adopted in Eurasia. Building Market Institutions in Post-Communist Agriculture draws on country-level case studies to analyze a range of initiatives that institutions have applied to agricultural economies. In this edited collection, contributors use a comparative analytical framework to project a universal process of agrarian transformation that continues to change the social, economic, and political characteristics of this part of the world.

Author : Gail Rolland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119990376

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Market Players by Gail Rolland Pdf

The global financial markets are not just driven by the big investment houses and fund managers. Along with these, private banks, insurance houses, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and a range of boutique investment managers, regional institutions and brokers of different sizes and nationalities all operate and interact to form the bedrock of the global financial infrastructure. Because of this, it is essential that practitioners and observers of the markets fully understand the linkages, objectives and functions of these institutions, and the new and dynamic environment they are working in. Market Players provides a complete roadmap to the institutions and intermediaries operating in today's global financial landscape, illustrating what they are, how they work, how they interact and importantly, their motivation. It explains the core financial market business of these institutions and considers how they have become the firms that we see today, providing readers with a clear understanding of which market sectors are likely to see the most involvement from the different types of institution and, importantly, why they are involved in these market areas. Key features include: a series of case studies looking at examples of some of these institutions including an explanation of the EIB and the UK agency UKFI. They also look at the financial crisis and the impact on AIG and Northern Rock, two institutions that clearly illustrate what can go wrong and how the other market players have to step in when this happens. an international perspective looking at representative institutions from Europe, Asia and North America, showing global similarities and differences. a Post Financial Crisis perspective on the structure of international banks in today's markets. coverage of the major players on both the buy and sell side of the market Written in plain English, Market Players is an accessible and much needed guide to financial institutions, equipping readers with the knowledge to better understand how the global financial markets really work.

Author : Harry G. Broadman,James Anderson,Constantijn A. Claessens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1293139520

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Building Market Institutions in South Eastern Europe by Harry G. Broadman,James Anderson,Constantijn A. Claessens Pdf

Author : Don R. Leet
Publisher : Council for Economic Educat
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1561836168

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Institutions and Markets by Don R. Leet Pdf

This publication provides lessons that use history, civics, government and economics activities to bring to life the institutions students read and hear about everyday.