Combating Trafficking in Persons: A directory of organisations

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ASI_2003_HT_UK_Combating_Trafficking.pdf: 445 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Decentralization (localization) and corruption : new cross-country evidence

This paper attempts to improve the understanding and measurement of decentralization and its relationship with corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using superior and more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of 182 countries. It is the first paper that treats various tiers of local governments (below the inter-mediate order of government) as the unit of comparative analysis. In contrast, previous analyses erroneously focused on subnational governments as the unit of analysis which yields invalid cross-country comparisons. By pursuing rigorous econometric analysis, the paper demonstrates that decentralization, when properly measured to mean moving government closer to people by empowering local governments, is shown to have significant negative effect on the incidence of corruption regardless of the choice of the estimation procedures or the measures of corruption used. In terms of various dimensions of decentralized local governance, political decentralization matters even when we control for fiscal decentralization. Further voice (political accountability) is empirically shown to be more important in combating corruption than exit options made available through competition among jurisdictions.National Governance,Subnational Economic Development,Public Sector Corruption&Anticorruption Measures,Banks&Banking Reform,Governance Indicators

Roster of State Officials, 2014

State of Iowa Roste

Roster of State Officials, 2016

State of Iowa Roste

Grain Quality: Positioning Ourselves for the Future, Iowa Quality Grain Study Final Report prepared by Cooper Evans and Kristi Livingston, November 16, 1987

The basic goal of Iowa is to strengthen the competitiveness of Iowa grain in both domestic and foreign markets. Therefore, Iowa producers and policymakers in this study seek to identify and define reasonable roles for the State of Iowa to perform in improving the quality of grain available from Iowa and in expanding both domestic and foreign markets for Iowa grain