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Economic Transition in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus in Comparative Perspective

Antczak, Rafal; Dabrowski, Marek - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 1995

The authors of this paper try to analyze the similarities and differences in the starting conditions, adopted policies, and achieved results of the above three countries. The first part of the paper will be devoted to the initial conditions: the economic heritage of the FSU (especially of the...

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Developing Sound Banks in Transitional Economies: Structural Reforms in Ukraine

Landy, Laurie - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 1997

the first period of the transitional governments. Then follows an in-depth discussion of Ukraine which explores at some …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541417

The Political Economy of Privatization in Ukraine

Snelbecker, David - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 1995

This paper recounts and analyzes privatization in Ukraine from 1990 to 1995 in light of the lessons learned by East … European countries and Russia. Part I of this paper recounts the experience of privatization in Ukraine from the beginning … until late 1995. Part II of the paper presents an analysis of privatization in Ukraine, identifying problems and suggesting …

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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

After a long period in which state-led development was the dominant economic paradigm, since the 1980s private sector development has been the focus for economic policy makers. It is probably no coincidence that economic growth, stagnant for a few decades in much of the developing world, took...

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Social security driven Tax wedge and its effects on Employment and Shadow Employment

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

driven tax wedge, employment and shadow employment in Russia and Ukraine. Previous results suggest a limited positive … suggest that the unskilled persons engaged in unregistered jobs in Ukraine and Russia are not "rewarded" with higher net …

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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 Mediterranean countries partnered with the European Union and collectively known as MED-11. Noting that the analysis applies to the situation prior to the dislocations of the...

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The Gender Pay Gap in Informal Employment in Poland

Ruzik, Anna; Rokicka, Magdalena - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2010

This paper addresses the issue of the gender pay gap in the formal and informal labour markets in Poland. The authors verify the hypothesis of the existence of a gender pay gap in informal work and compare this gap with the one observed in the formal (registered) labour market. Various analyses...

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Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States

Barbone, Luca; Belkindas, Misha V.; Bettendorf, Leon; … - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2013

This report presents and discusses the findings of the “Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States” (Contract TAXUD/2012/DE/316, FWC No. TAXUD/2010/CC/104), conducted by CASE and CPB.The structure of this report is as follows. In Chapter 1, we discuss the structure...

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2012 Update Report to the Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States

DABROWSKI, Marek; Barbone, Luca; Bonch-Osmolovskiy, Mikhail - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2014

This report provides estimates of the VAT Gap for 26 EU Member States for 2012, as well as revised estimates for the period 2009-2011. It is a follow-up to the report “Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States”,1 published in September 2013. This update...

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The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature

Barbone, Luca; Bird, Richard; Vázquez Caro, Jaime - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2012

This paper reviews the published literature on the definition and measurement of the administrative and compliance costs of taxation, with special reference to VAT (including evasion and fraud) in the European Union.

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