Die Arbeit präsentiert die Ergebnisse zweier Unternehmensumfragen, die in Kasachstan,Usbekistan und Turkmenistan in den Jahren 2002-2004 durchgeführt wurden. Befragtwurden insgesamt 136 privatisierte Unternehmen der Lebensmittel- und der Leichtindustrie,qualitative Interviews mit ausgewählten...

Several trade-based measures of product variety have recently been used implicitly torepresent states of technology, promoting long-run growth. In this paper, we define thestate of technology as the range of specialised production processes and propose thevariety of capital goods available for...

Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, there is again a debate on shock therapy versus gradualism, this time with regard to developing and emerging societies. This debate was mainly triggered by Dani Rodrik (2007), who argues that reform programmes in poor countries should not be...