This week (Sept 20–22), world leaders gathered in New York, NY, USA, to give a fi nal push to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to which they committed in 2000. Although some progress has been made, a new approach is sorely needed if countries are to achieve MDG targets by 2015. There has been much debate in the global health community on how best to accelerate...

the analyze of the petroleum contract determines that the ownership of the oil and gas filed is one of the very fundamental issues in the petroleum contract not only for the host country in the middle east but also for the petroleum companies. but the analyze of the petroleum contracts from the ownership perspective may show that the hybrid nature of this ownership rights, one from private law ...

We show that previous results suggesting that government ownership of banks is associated with lower long run growth rates are not robust to adding more ‘fundamental’ determinants of economic growth. We also present new cross-country evidence for 1995-2007 which suggests that, if anything, government ownership of banks has been robustly associated with higher long run growth rates. While acknow...

The extent to which firm ownership is concentrated or dispersed varies considerably from country to country. Explanations based on differences in the protection of minority shareholders leave a significant part of the variance unexplained. This paper offers a novel explanation for the variation in ownership concentration across countries based on differences in the quality of labor relations. W...

Mobile phone data are increasingly being used to quantify the movements of human populations for a wide range of social, scientific and public health research. However, making population-level inferences using these data is complicated by differential ownership of phones among different demographic groups that may exhibit variable mobility. Here, we quantify the effects of ownership bias on mob...

Rajah Rasiah This paper seeks to examine the importance of ownership in R&D intensities and export ownership in the automotive parts firms in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Taiwan. Consistent with the portfolio and ownership, location and internationalization theories of foreign direct investment about asset specific advantages, the pooled regressions show higher R&D intensities in...