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China’s economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China’s institutions look ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve "China puzzle" this paper analyses China’s institution - a regionally...
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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, but concentrating on the importance of creating...
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East, with special emphasis to the case of Egypt. It has been noted that high inequality might have contributed to the Arab … income shares in a country like Egypt(or in other Middle East countries). One would need reliable fiscal sources in order to …
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Muhammad Ali, who ruled Egypt between 1805 and 1849, intervened in Egyptian markets in an attempt to foster … Egyptian history than from other poor countries at that time since Egypt faced the same terms of trade boom typical of most …
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conduct a randomized experiment in post-revolution Egypt to measure the impact of insuring microenterprises against …
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Egypt needs to diversify exports further in order to emerge from its isolation and to draw the maximum advantage from …
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This paper explores the economic impact of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Egypt and the United States, assuming … that Egypt implements both the recently agreed Arab League FTA and a Partnership Agreement with the European Union. An … Egypt-United States agreement would improve Egypt’s economic welfare. Gains would be maximized if the agreement were to …
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This paper assesses the possible impact of a Euro-Mediterranean Agreement (EMA) on Egypt and Jordan and identifies …
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Key questions in evaluating the justification for free trade agreements (FTAs) are whether formal international cooperation is necessary to promote greater contestability of markets through harmonization or recognition of regulatory regimes ("deep integration"), and whether any actions taken to...
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This paper examines the relationship between differences in civil society development under communism and divergence in the nature and pace of political and economic reform and transformation after 1989. We put together a unique data set on dissident activities for the 27 former centrally...
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