| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1993 - 224 pages
...increasing spending, soc., ity 1 Mancur Olson is a professor of economics and Chair of the Center on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland. IRIS is supported by the US Agency for International Development. Olson's views are his own alone and... | |
| Lynn D. Nelson, Irina Y. Kuzes - 1994 - 286 pages
...reform in Russia with grants from The National Council for Soviet and East European Research (NCSEER), the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland, and the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). He has spent nearly half of the past three... | |
| N. F. R. Crafts, Gianni Toniolo - 1996 - 636 pages
...NOTES I am grateful to the US Agency for International Development for support of my research through the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland. This support has facilitated my development of the general theory used here and particularly its application... | |
| Anthony T.H. Chin - 1996 - 692 pages
...Economic Reform.” Working Paper, the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars and the Centre for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maiyland. Murrel, Peter. l99lc. “Public Choice and the Transformation of Socialism.” Journal of... | |
| Kimberly Ann Elliott - 1997 - 248 pages
...sources for this data. One corruption index used in this chapter is based on a data set compiled by the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland from data originally collected by Political Risk Services and published in the International Country... | |
| Federico Sturzenegger, Mariano Tommasi - 1998 - 402 pages
...Positive Political Economy. We thank the financial support of the UCLA Academic Senate, of the Project on "Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector" (IRIS) at the University of Maryland under Cooperative Agreement DHR-0015-A-00-003I-00 with the Center of Economic Growth of the US Agency... | |
| Shlomo Angel - 2000 - 435 pages
...Indicators Program and that policy paper. I thank Christopher Clague, the Director of the Project on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland who provided the financial support for the initial work on the Enabling Index; Dixie Blackley and Gershon... | |
| Yair Baranes, Ronald C. C. Cuming - 2001 - 254 pages
...Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland also provided essential support. The authors are grateful to the following individuals, who, through... | |
| Christiaan Grootaert, Thierry Van Bastelaer - 2002 - 320 pages
...Senior Economist at the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, she was Associate Director of the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland. In addition to conducting research on institutional aspects of economic development, she has undertaken... | |
| Christiaan Grootaert, Thierry van Bastelaer - 2002 - 394 pages
...California, Berkeley. THIERRY VAN BASTEt.AER is Director of the Integrated Financial Services Team at the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland and Research Coordinator of the Social Capital Initiative. As a political economist, he has worked... | |
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