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Harmonizing Business Laws In Africa: Ohada Calls The Tune, Claire M. Dickerson
Harmonizing Business Laws In Africa: Ohada Calls The Tune, Claire M. Dickerson
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OHADA (in English, “Organization for Harmonization in Africa of Business Laws”) is a system of business laws and implementing institutions. Sixteen West African nations adopted this regime in order to increase their attractiveness to foreign investment. Because most of the member-states are former French colonies, the OHADA laws are based on the French legal system. Despite certain economists’ recent, well-publicized assertions that any French-based legal system is incompatible with development, other studies challenge those claims and in doing so outline characteristics that a pro-development system of business laws should possess. A review of selected provisions from OHADA’s corporate law and …
Global Credit Card Use And Debt: Policy Issues And Regulatory Responses, Ronald J. Mann
Global Credit Card Use And Debt: Policy Issues And Regulatory Responses, Ronald J. Mann
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The rise of card-based payments has transformed the landscape of payments in the last half century, from one dominated by government-supported paper-based payments to one dominated by wholly private systems. The rise of those payments presents a number of policy problems, the most serious of which is the empirically demonstrable likelihood that use of the cards contributes to an undue level of consumer credit and that borrowing on the cards contributes to a rise in the level of consumer bankruptcy. Although the existing pattern shows great variation from country to country, regulators should take no solace in those variations. Building …