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Period Emerging economies and corporate governance codes<br />

2008 Morocco has adopted the first and the last code of CG<br />

Slovakia has adopted the second and the last code of CG<br />

Hungary has adopted the third and the last code of CG<br />

Nigeria has adopted the third and the last code of CG<br />

Sri Lanka has adopted the second and the last code of CG<br />

2009 South Africa has adopted the third code of CG<br />

India has adopted the fourth and the last code of CG<br />

Romania has adopted the second code of CG<br />

Brasilia has adopted the fourth and the last code of CG<br />

Columbia has adopted the second and the last code of CG<br />

2010 Bahrain has adopted the first and the last code of CG<br />

South Africa has adopted the fourth and the last code of CG<br />

Mexico has adopted the second and the last code of CG<br />

Latvia has adopted the second and the last code of CG<br />

2011 Egypt has adopted the third and the last code of CG<br />

According to our study, the situation of the countries with developed economies is<br />

different. Their status impose a continuous preoccupation for corporate governance<br />

because, unofficial, they give the international tone in terms of applying the principles<br />

and code of corporate governance, in being responsible and in updating the codes and<br />

rules of corporate governance. We consider relevant a commentary on the situation of<br />

issuance of corporate governance codes in 2010.<br />

As we can notice, Great Britain remains the most prolific in issuing corporate<br />

governance codes, with five updates. United States and Germany are next countries<br />

whose preoccupation in terms of corporate governance is obvious, considering the<br />

number of codes already issued until 2010 (13).<br />

Table 3. Developed economies that have adopted corporate governance codes<br />

in 2010<br />

Period Developed economies and corporate governance codes<br />

2010 Australia has adopted the 10 th and the last code of CG<br />

Norway has adopted the 6 th and the last code of CG<br />

Germania has adopted the 14 th and the last code of CG<br />

France has adopted the 9 th and the last code of CG<br />

Great Britain has adopted the 27 th , 28 th , 29 th , 30 th , 31 st and the last code of CG<br />

USA has adopted the 14 th and the last code of CG<br />

Greece has adopted the 3 rd and the last code of CG<br />

Ireland has adopted the 3 rd , the 4 th and the last code of CG<br />

Portugal has adopted the 8 th and the last code of CG<br />

Denmark has adopted the 8 th and the last code of CG<br />

Sweden has adopted the 7 th and the last code of CG<br />

Next to emerging economies and developed economies, frontier economies, as a<br />

subset of emerging economies, do not had preoccupations for corporate governance<br />

codes, because their activity is not yet focused on principles of high conduit and<br />

behavior. Although, there are some tendencies towards a code of corporate<br />

governance, as follows:<br />

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