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The current study examines the evolution of bankruptcy reforms in India through time, as well as the effectiveness of these changes since they were first implemented in the country. There is an attempt to address the current state of cross-border bankruptcy legislation and process in India, as well as how it affects foreign creditors who invest in Indian firms. To make it more applicable to current circumstances, all of this is extended with the use of a hypothetical scenario, which also serves to demonstrate the cumulative impact of past and currently in effect legislation.

The current study examines the evolution of bankruptcy reforms in India through time, as well as the effectiveness of these changes since they were first implemented in the country. There is an attempt to address the current state of cross-border bankruptcy legislation and process in India, as well as how it affects foreign creditors who invest in Indian firms. To make it more applicable to current circumstances, all of this is extended with the use of a hypothetical scenario, which also serves to demonstrate the cumulative impact of past and currently in effect legislation.

The current study examines the evolution of bankruptcy reforms in India through time, as well as the effectiveness of these changes since they were first implemented in the country. There is an attempt to address the current state of cross-border bankruptcy legislation and process in India, as well as how it affects foreign creditors who invest in Indian firms. To make it more applicable to current circumstances, all of this is extended with the use of a hypothetical scenario, which also serves to demonstrate the cumulative impact of past and currently in effect legislation.

Security and mobility have become a seemingly inseparable concept in the recent European geopolitical landscape. While the historically deeply rooted social, economic and legal aspects of migration have been extensively studied, the current emphasis on emergency in mobility management, which has has been radically shaping the law-making and law-enforcement dynamics, has been rather underexplored. Taking stock of the challenges emerging in view of adjusting the law-making and enforcement set-up at the national and European levels to a context of emergency, this Special Issue pursues the ambitious goal of shedding light on the post-crisis controversial scenario of mobility in Europe, characterised by the political impasse over the reform of the overall European governance of migration. Based on a neoliberal conceptual framework, this multidisciplinary consideration of human mobility across European borders questions whether the crisis is really over or whether the sense of crisis is projected onto the future policy developments.

This report is based on a study carried out by the AGMEMOD Partnership under the management of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI, in the Netherlands), in cooperation with the Joint Research Centre – Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS) to generate projections for the main agricultural commodity markets for each year from 2005 until 2015. The report outlines the results of the baseline projections of agricultural commodity markets, further CAP reform scenario impact analyses and exchange rate change sensitivity analyses for each EU-25 Member State (except Malta and Cyprus). For Bulgaria and Romania enlargement and non-enlargement scenarios are analysed. Detailed documentation on the AGMEMOD modelling approach, along with the outcome of the study, is published in five reports in the JRC-IPTS technical paper series under the heading "Impact analysis of Common Agricultural Policy reform on the main agricultural commodities".

The objective of this paper is to present the land administration and management (LAM) issues on CARP and determine the necessary institutional reforms on LAM in view of CARP expiration in 2008. The paper discussed the adverse effects brought about by weak land policy and poor land administration on attaining the objectives of CARP. The poor land records, the lack of information sharing among government land agencies, the tedious land titling and registration process, the unclear land policies have resulted not only in prolonged implementation of the program but also flawed land redistribution and incomplete transfers of property rights. These outcomes evolved second-generation issues as "unperfected" titles are traded despite the restrictions imposed by the land reform law. The current LAM in the country showed that the system cannot handle the land transactions that evolve and continue to evolve from hundreds and thousands of transactions involving CARP-awarded lands. There is a need to restore not only the confidence on Torrens system of titling on agriculture lands but also to restore the functioning of the rural land market. This is a key challenge on LAM since it would require reconciling information from key land agencies and including that of the LandBank. It will also require legislative actions on land market regulations, land use policy, and land administration in the country.

Suggests that reformers in 1993 were of a belief that the 2-decade-long trend toward greater imprisonment might have reached its peak. Less than a year later, that optimistic scenario had been transformed; asks how the political landscape changed so rapidly.

WITH HIS ELECTION AS RUSSIA'S NEW PRESIDENT IN MARCH 2000, VLADIMIR PUTIN BECAME THE LEADER OF A COUNTRY IN A TERRIBLE MESS. BORIS YELTSIN BEQUEATHED A NATION WHICH HAD UNDERGONE SAVAGE ECONOMIC DECLINE, COLLAPSING PUBLIC SERVICES, A WEAKENED DEMOCRACY, AND A CYNICAL, POLITICALLY APATHETIC POPULATION. AT THE TIME OF HIS APPOINTMENT, PUTIN WAS WIDELY SEEN AS JUST ANOTHER APPARATCHIK, APPOINTED TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THE "FAMILY" AND THE OLIGARCHS. ALTHOUGH THIS MAY TURN OUT TO BE THE CASE IN THE END, THERE ARE OTHER POTENTIALLY KEY FACTORS THAT POINT TO A DIFFERENT SCENARIO. ONE IS THE UNDERLYING POWER OF THE SECURITY SERVICES. ANOTHER IS THE APPARENT STEELY DETERMINATION OF PUTIN HIMSELF. YET ANOTHER IS THE FACT THAT RUSSIA HAS TOO STRONG A STATE TRADITION TO SLIDE DOWN COMPLETELY INTO THIRD-WORLD STATUS.

Shows that the eruption of strikes in France enjoying widespread support has forced the government to abandon crucial parts of the neo-liberal scenario devised at Maastricht. Suggests that the watchwords of the left have acquired a new resonance but there is not yet visible that wider programme which could turn popular revulsion into new social conquests. (Original abstract-amended)

AbstractThe demographic changes occurring in Mali, evident in high fertility but declining mortality rates have raised optimism about the prospects of reaping demographic dividend. However, it remains unclear how soon and what policy scenario would yield the largest demographic dividend in the country. We used a demographic-economic model "DemDiv" to assess the prospects of reaping a demographic dividend in Mali by 2050. We illuminate this further by examining the cost and implications of different combination of education, family planning and economic policies. The results show that by increasing access to education, family planning services coupled with strong economic reforms, Mali's GDP per capita will be $27,044 by 2050. This high per capita GDP is almost thrice the benefit of prioritising only economic reforms. Mali would also have a GDP of $977 billion. These findings highlight the need for sound demographic and market-oriented economic policies for Mali to reap a large demographic dividend by 2050.

Purpose: The paper proposes that public sector organizations facing institutionalized reform pressure may not only integrate the reform into their operation when it fits but also pace the integration while undergoing organizational cultural transformations to fit with the reform. The newly cultivated cultural characteristics, nonetheless, need to be compatible externally with the ideational basis of the reform and internally with existing values and beliefs embodied by the organizations. Design/methodology/approach: Building on a neo-institutionalist perspective, the paper develops a model which considers the possibilities and conditions that local cultural change in the reforming organizations may facilitate reform integration. To test the model's analytical potential, the paper analyzed reform responses of semi-autonomous agencies from Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden under the New Public Management (NPM) reform. Ordinary least square (OLS) regression models were performed on the survey data collected from agency heads (or representative) during the peak of the reform trend. Analyzing this sample of later adopters whose government generally enjoyed high degrees of capacity and autonomy provided a preliminary test to the model's potential. Findings: Significant statistical relations were found between the adoption of operation-level NPM practices and the extent that an agency's cultural characteristics fit with both the ideational basis of NPM and the exiting value-belief mix the agency embodied. Agency characteristics of "proactive responsiveness" and "goal-oriented cooperation" were found significantly related to adoption of NPM practices, showing the possibility of cultivating local cultural changes in reforming organizations. Originality/value: While compatible with neo-institutionalist emphasis on local continuity, the paper describes an alternative scenario of reform integration for public managers.