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Asian Development Bank Strategy for the Pacific

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Development Research Centre of the State Council of the PRC Asian Development Bank

Performance contracts (PCs)—contracts signed between the government and state enterprise managers—have been used widely in developing countries. China’s experience with such contracts was one of the largest experiment of contracting in the public sector, affecting hundreds of thousands of state firms, and offered a rare opportunity to explore how PCs work. Our findings indicate that on average ...

B IBLIOGRAPHY POVERTY REDUCTION IN THE MALDIVES : ISSUES , FINDINGS , AND APPROACHES Asian Development Bank January 2002

POVERTY PROFILE of the PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Asian Development Bank

The Urban Development Bank

I want to discuss with you one proposal among many designed to bring more money to the states and municipalities. In the Johnson Administration we called it the Urban Development Bank, or URBANK. The present administration calls its version the Environmental Financing Authority. There are significant differences between the two, but both raise money through the sale of taxable bonds and lend to...