Governance Reform Program in Nepal: Difficulties and Implementation

Governance and Reform in India

This paper reviews the background, rationale, and prospects for India's recent reforms in the structures of local government. It begins by commenting on some dimensions of governance, and why it is useful to focus on decentralization, especially in the current Indian context. Then some of the theoretical arguments on federalism as an important mechanism for decentralization, as well as India's ...

Economic Governance and Microeconomic Reform

Economic governance in Australia has undergone radical changes since the 1970s. Many of these changes are associated with the market-oriented policies collectively referred to as ‘microeconomic reform’. Broadly speaking, microeconomic reform can be defined as government policies or initiatives aimed at improving the performance and/or the efficiency of industries or sectors in the economy (Fors...

Pension Reform, Savings Behavior and Corporate Governance

France, Germany and Italy, to take the three largest economies in continental Europe, have large and ailing pay-as-you-go public pension systems, very thin capital markets, and low capital performance. Taking Germany as an example, we show that these three issues are closely linked. Specifically, we argue that pension reform, via a change in portfolio composition of households and a strengtheni...

The Reform of (Corporate) Governance in Japan

“Urban transport governance reform in Barcelona”

The unusual mixed public-private structure of the urban bus market in the metropolitan area of Barcelona provides an interesting context in which to analyze the management challenges and opportunities of the partial privatization of public services. Initiatives used by the public regulator to promote competition for contracts, such as short term concessions to private contractors and the remova...