Trade is indispensable to fostering greater levels of global economic development. As the OECD has written, “No country has lifted itself out of poverty without international trade.” This category consolidates GTIPA-member reports assessing the intersection of trade and economic development.
Norway comes first in the 2017 Legatum Prosperity Index™ beating New Zealan
Services are a major component of global gross domestic product and employm
A landmark study of public opinion in the UK post the General Election has
This is a study of Malaysia’s new political economy, with a focus on ownership and control of the corporate sector. It offers a pioneering assessment of government-linked investment companies (GLICs), a type of state-owned institution that has long prevailed in the corporate sector but has not been analyzed. Malaysia’s history of government-business ties is unique, while the nature of the nexuses between the state and the corporate sector has undergone major transitions. Corporate power has shifted from the hands of foreign firms to the state to the ruling party, and well-connected businessmen, and back to the state. Corporate wealth is now heavily situated in the leading publicly-listed government-linked companies (GLCs), controlled through block shareholdings by a mere seven GLICs under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Finance. To indicate why these GLICs are important actors in Corporate Malaysia, this study provides a deep assessment of their ownership and control of Bursa Malaysia’s top 100 publicly-listed enterprises.
The IQI contains two subcategories which evaluate the quality of Public Institutions in a specific country, it analyses its “Political Institutions” for one part, and its “Market Institutions” for the other.
The Institutional Quality Index (IQI) is elaborated by the Argentinian prof
Innovation and technology are changing the real estate industry worldwide, but they are still little explored topics in Mexico; This creates the necessary conditions to interrupt (disrupt) real estate in the country.
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This Legatum Institute report assesses the extent of anti-competitive market distortions (ACMDs) in India's economy, finding that if they were replaced with truly pro-competitive policies, then the productivity of the Indian economy could improve by as much as a factor of 19.
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