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Federal Tax Arrears in Russia: Liquidity Problems, Federal Redistribution or Russian Resistance?

Ponomareva, Maria; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the 1990s are tested empirically. Tax arrears can be a result of: 1) liquidity problems in firms, 2) redistribute subsidies of the federal government, or 3) regional political resistance to federal tax...

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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...

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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...

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On Thin Ice: CESEE Core Resilient in the Face of EU Stagnation and the Ukraine Crisis

Astrov, Vasily; Çiçek, Serkan; Dobrinsky, Rumen; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

Summary Despite near stagnation in the euro area and the negative impact of the Ukraine crisis, in most of the NMS economies and some of the Western Balkan countries growth prospects are viewed as positive. While the NMS economies will preserve their positive growth differential vis-à-vis the...

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As East You Go, the More They Grow: Transition Economies in a New Setting

Gligorov, Vladimir; Pöschl, Josef; Richter, Sandor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2004

structural problems. High growth in many of the low-income transition countries should not divert attention away from the …

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Transition Countries on the Eve of EU Enlargement

Podkaminer, Leon - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2004

The transition countries approach EU enlargement with GDP growth outperforming the 'old' EU. In 2003, Poland's economy … prolonged near-stagnation in the EU has had limited impacts on GDP growth in the transition (and even the accession) countries …, though remaining quite high. Moderate and fairly stable growth is also expected in other transition countries not yet …

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Transition Countries Resist Global Slowdown: Productivity Gains Offset Effects of Appreciation

Podkaminer, Leon - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2003

After satisfactory performance of the transition countries in 2000, their growth slowed down in 2001 as the external …

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Investment to the Rescue

Astrov, Vasily; Dobrinsky, Rumen; Gligorov, Vladimir; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) expects GDP in Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) to pick up speed and grow on average by 2-3% over the forecast period 2014-2016 a major driving force rooted in an upward reversal of public and private investment. The...

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Investment to the Rescue

Astrov, Vasily; Dobrinsky, Rumen; Gligorov, Vladimir; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

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Models of BRICs' Economic Development and Challenges for EU Competitiveness

Ghosh, Jayati; Havlik, Peter; Ribeiro, Marcos P.; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

The term BRICs puts under a common label the four largest fast growing emerging countries Brazil, Russia, India and China. The BRICs show many common features, such as big land size, large population, fast economic growth etc., but important differences as well, due to their different models of...

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