The Lao PDR is facing unprecedented macroeconomic challenges, which jeopardize hard-won development gains. Over the past two decades, the country attracted considerable foreign investment and fostered...
In many countries, the state-owned enterprises (SOE) sector has been plagued by operational and financial problems and is a source of contingent liabilities for the state. Many SOEs have posted large losses...
The objectives of this note are identifying the fiscal implications and the shortcomings of the corporate governance of the SOE sector through an initial stock taking of the sector. This policy note first...
East Timor, which has adopted Portuguese as its official language, is now faced with the challenge of transforming the legal system inherited from Indonesia, into a new legal system based on the Portuguese...
Indonesia's macroeconomic performance in recent months shows continued gradual recovery despite continued social unrest on outer islands and slow progress with corporate and bank restructuring. Production...
Ukraine has so far been unable to activate ita mass privatization program. However, in early March 1994, a multidonor mission to Ukraine signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on mass privatization...