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Background Report on Private Sector Development in Latin America, the Post-Communist Countries of Europe and Asia, the Middle East and North Africa

Kozarzewski, Piotr; Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2012

spite of a wave of crises and recessions in the late 1990s and early 2000s). Privatization has made a great deal of progress …

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Final Report on Private Sector Development in the MED-11 Region

Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2012

This report is concerned with the analysis of privatization and private sector development for the eastern and southern … development and, to a greater or lesser extent, privatization of stateowned assets. However, there is a great deal of … divided into two groups: one, including Algeria, Libya, and Syria, where reforms promoting privatization and private sector …

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Ukraine at a Crossroads

DABROWSKI, Marek - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2007

The Orange Revolution in the fall of 2004 built great hopes for a better future for Ukraine. However, three years later those hopes have been replaced by disappointment, frustration and confusion. Although progress in the areas of political freedom, pluralism, civil rights and freedom in the...

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Study on Quality of Public Finances in Support of Growth in the Mediterranean Partner Countries of the EU

Coutinho, Leonor; De Wulf, Luc; Florez, Santiago; … - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2010

Until the early 1990s, the discussions on fiscal policy primarily centered on the functions of economic stabilization, income redistribution and resource allocation. Long-term growth was not usually viewed as an end itself, and fiscal policy was often not sufficiently tailored to the different...

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The Challenges of Governance Structure, Trade Disputes and Natural Environment to China's Growth

Woo, Wing Thye - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2007

Viewing the Chinese economy as a speeding car, there are three types of development that could crash the car: (1) a hardware failure, which is the breakdown of an economic mechanism (analogous to the collapse of the chassis of the car), e.g. a banking crisis; (2) a software failure, which is a...

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Private, Public and Foreign Savings

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

CHAPTER 1:Saving, Investment, Financial Integration and FDI in Central Europe (Magorzata Jakubiak) Evidence on domestic savings and investments in industrialised countries indicates that capital markets are not perfectly integrated. On the contrary, various measures of financial integration...

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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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Evaluating Government Policy in Transition Countries

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

The paper examines neoclassical measures to evaluate government policy in transition countries: 1) marginal factor 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....

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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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