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Achieving Rapid Growth in the Transition Economies of Central Europe

Sachs, Jeffrey; Warner, Andrew M. - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 1996

This paper describes ways that the CEEs can speed their convergence with the EU by emulating the growth strategies of … growth performance. In Section III, we demonstrate the role of key policy variables in the context of cross-country growth … raise their growth in the coming years. …

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A Wider Europe: Trade Relations Between an Enlarged EU and the Russian Federation

Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2004

This paper aims to study the joint effects of the 2004 EU Enlargement and Russia’s entry into the WTO, and the effects of an eventual Russia-Enlarged EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The paper is organized as follows: in Section I, it starts with the brief description of the model used. The...

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Macroeconomic Policies: Stabilization and Transition in Former Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic

Hrncir, Miroslav; Klacek, Jan - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 1994

Paper discusses reform process in the Czech Republic (and former Czechoslovakia), which after some preparations in 1990 started in 1991 has been implemented along two major reform lines: - microeconomic restructuring including privatization, liberalization of prices and markets, and - creation...

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Private, Public and Foreign Savings

Jakubiak, Malgorzata; Kaczorowski, Pawel; … - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 1999

in Estonia could hamper the future growth of saving rate. CHEPATER 2: The Interactions between Private Savings and … growth rate of zloty denominated deposits held both by households and by enterprises is positively correlated with real … sector in Poland influences the growth of credits and deposits held by households, but it does not affect the behaviour of …

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Restructuring and Social Safety Nets in Russia and Ukraine - Socail Security Influence on Labor Mobility: Possible Opportunities and Challenges

Gora, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009

The paper discusses the issue of labor force mobility in a broad sense, and analyses how changes in social security policy and the structure of the social safety net (SSN) affects different aspects of labor force mobility. The text is structured as follows: Introduction, then follows Chapter 2,...

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Linkages between the MDGs and PRSPs in Transitional Countries of Eurasia

Baramia, Victor; Mogilevsky, Roman; Tumasyan, Mushegh - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2005

The paper looks at linkages between MDGs and PRSPs in six transition countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, and Tajikistan. Progress towards MDG attainment in all these countries is considered. Key features of PRSPs in the countries of the sub-region are analyzed....

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Currency Crises and Fiscal Imbalances. The Transition Countries Perspective

Siwinska-Gorzelak, Joanna - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2000

The financial innovations and increased integration of capital markets have made the nature of balance of payments turmoil much more complex, than described by firstgeneration models. The severe financial crises, which erupted in 1990's in many seemingly "invulnerable" economies that in most...

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Evaluating Government Policy in Transition Countries

Gillman, Max - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 1999

prices and the return to capital, 2) growth rates and taxes, 3) inflation rates, and 4) debt/GDP ratios, related to … international real business cycle and endogenous growth theory. It further postulates a way to consider the debt/equity position of …

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Tax Systems in the Selected Transition Economies. An overview

Polomski, Krzysztof - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 1999

The paper discusses the Value Added Tax, Personal Income Tax, Corporate Income Tax and excise tax in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the Kyrgyz Republic. It could be argued that the countries of Central Europe are more advanced in their reforms compared with...

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Post-Adaptation Growth Recovery in Poland and Russia - Similarities and Differences

DABROWSKI, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinitsina, Irina - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the sources, economic and social characteristics, of growth recovery, which … communist countries entered the path of economic growth, those which moved slowly lost sometimes the whole decade. Social costs …’s growth can origin from its structural monoculture dominated by the oil and energy sector, and poor business climate, the …

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