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Land deals in Africa: pioneers and speculators

Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Much African land currently has low productivity and has attracted investors purchasing (or leasing) land as a speculative option on higher future prices or productivity. If land deals are to be beneficial they need to induce productivity enhancing investments. Some of these will be publicly...

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The Competitiveness of Hungarian Industry

Hare, Paul G; Hughes, Gordon; Michael, Thomas; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Using an RAS update to 1990 of an 86-sector input-output table for Hungary in 1986, and corresponding data on world … sectors are obtained under a variety of conditions. Hungary's trade relationships and constraints on trade make it uncertain … Hungary and the EC on Hungary's competitiveness, finding that some sectors will be strengthened, e.g. forestry, agriculture …

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Factors and Effects of Trade Reorientation in Hungary

Halpern, László - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...

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After, Before and During: Returns to Education in Hungary (1986-1998)

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

How valuable are the skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This Paper throws light on this question using unique data covering the years before and during transition (1986-98) for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners. We find that returns to a year of schooling increased by 75%...

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Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

benefit systems. We investigate this issue with a field experiment in Hungary involving random assignment of benefit claimants …

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Tax Reform, Trade Liberalisation and Industrial Restructuring in Hungary

Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

The two central economic problems facing Hungary are its large foreign debt and its relatively poor rate of growth over … the 1980s. The paper examines some of the reform issues facing Hungary, starting with the tax reforms of 1988 and 1989 …

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The Burden and Disincentive Effects of Hungarian Personal Taxes 1988-96

Newbery, David M G; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper analyses the revenue-raising, distributional and incentive effects of the personal tax system in Hungary from …

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Key Elements of the Reform of the Hungarian Banking System: Privatization and Portfolio Cleaning

Várhegyi, Eva - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper focuses on some of the major problems of the Hungarian banking system and investigates the possible ways to deal with these problems. It discusses the issue of bank restructuring, concentrating on the large commercial banks for which direct or indirect state ownership is decisive....

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The Economics of Bankruptcy and the Transition to a Market Economy

Abel, István; Gatsios, Konstantine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper looks at simple decision rules in bankruptcy procedures. It describes special issues of enterprise liquidation and reorganization during economic transformation. The reforms of the financial system and other important factors in economic transformation influence the impact of...

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Redistributive Policy in a Transition Economy: The Case of Hungary

Jarvis, Sarah; Pudney, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

income transfers. We concentrate on the case of Hungary. We first survey recent developments in the economic circumstances of …

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