This report examines Japanese local
government primarily from the perspective of local residents
seeking to realize such fundamental political values as
liberty (personal...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33044Date: May 1, 2001Author:
MacDougall, Terry
This paper shows that the distribution
of grants to local governments is not significantly affected
by individual political influence. Statistical analysis
shows no...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33031Date: May 1, 2001Author:
Reed, Steven R.
A strong inter-regional equity bias has
been a distinctive feature of the Japanese local public
finance system. This paper shows that substantial
equalization of revenues...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33043Date: May 1, 2001Author:
Mochida,Nobuki
This paper argues that changes in
intergovernmental relations in Japan in the post-war period
are best understood in terms of an integrationist as opposed
to a separationist...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33032Date: May 1, 2001Author:
Muramatsu, Michio
Personnel systems and policies can have
a substantial influence on the quality of local government.
This paper shows that Japanese local governments provide
stable,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33042Date: May 1, 2001Author:
Inatsugu, Hiroaki
This paper presents the experience of
the Republic of Korea, in setting up a National Pension
Scheme (NPS), and assesses its likely effectiveness in
coping with future...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 22712Date: January 31, 2001Author:
Yang,Bong-Min
This paper analyzes the efficacy of the
national health insurance (NHI) system in the Republic of
Korea, and the role played by the private sector in the
provision of...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 22714Date: January 31, 2001Author:
Yang,Bong-Min
The East Asian region is extremely
dynamic in terms of both economic, and socio-political
changes. Starting from very low levels of development in the
1960s,, several...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 22717Date: January 31, 2001Author:
Tilak, Jandhyala B.G.
According to this paper,
Singapore's success in economic, and social development
in recent decades, has been due to pragmatic policies, and
general public acceptance...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 22713Date: January 31, 2001Author:
Lnu,Nilofer Khan Habibullah
This paper focuses on two aspects of the
evolution and structure of clusters in Japan, namely, what
gives rise to clusters and what benefits are acquired by
small firms...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33027Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Yamawaki,Hideki
The September 2000 disappearance and
murder of the Internet journalist Georgy Gongadze
highlighted once again the serious security threats faced by
journalists investigating...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 26713Date: January 1, 2001
This paper describes the Japanese system
of staff loans and transfers across different levels of
government. It examines various possible rationales for the
existence...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33041Date: January 1, 2001Author:
INOKI, TAKENORI
This paper suggests that local
governments in Japan have played an important role in coping
with post-war socio-economic changes by embarking on a
series of innovative...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33037Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Kitayama,Toshiya
This paper describes the causes and
consequences of post-war municipal amalgamations in Japan.
It shows that recent amalgamations have been inspired in
part by the desire...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33038Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Mabuchi, Masaru
This study is meant to be a highly
operational and forward looking study to provide a new
direction to the ongoing program on Policy and Institutional
Reform for Sustainable...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 49347Date: August 1, 2000Author:
Azumi, Hatsuya
Governance is the way in which public
power and authority is formed and used to control and manage
society's resources. Good governance rests on four
pillars: (a) accountability,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28019Date: May 1, 2000Author:
Lee, Young ;
Nunberg,Barbara ;
Pilichowski,Elsa ;
Song,Su Yong ;
Stone,Andrew H. W. ;
Zoido-Lobaton,Pablo
The primary goal of the World Bank
Institute Governance, Regulation and Finance unit's
(WBIGF) governance program is to help countries to develop
effective programs...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 49455Date: April 1, 2000Author:
Gonzalez de Asis, Maria ; Kaufmann, Daniel
A regional workshop on microfinance for
East Asia and the Pacific was held in Manila, Philippines,
from March 20 to 24, 2000. The four and a half day workshop
aimed...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 49456Date: April 1, 2000Author:
Hart, Laurence
The relationship between public capital,
regional output and private sector productivity has been an
issue of considerable interest in the regional development
literature....
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33051Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Lall,Somik V. ;
Yilmaz,Serdar
The broad objective of the World Bank
Institute's (WBI's) Macroeconomic and Financial
Management (MFM) program is to help economists from client
countries and multilateral...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 49454Date: December 1, 1999Author:
Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Moreno-Herrero, Blanca
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