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Book Review --Working with Private Sector Providers for Better Health Care: An Introductory Guide

Kumar, Deepak - EconWPA - 2005

Working with Private Sector Provider for Better Healthcare: An Introductory Guide aims to provide the most critical approach to develop strategies for working with Private Sector Participation (PSPs) for better healthcare. This Guide focuses specifically on those PSPs who operate on a for-profit...

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Jamaica’s Private Sector: A Strategy For Sustainable Hypercompetition Development

Jones, Peter W - EconWPA - 2005

In order for Jamaica to transition from a developed to developing country there needs to be developed in Jamaica a strong knowledge based economy. The literature speaks to four preconditions that lead to knowledge becoming an effective engine of growth. These are: · An economic and...

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Exchange Rate Regimes and Poland's Participation in ERM II

Borowski, Jakub; Brzezina, Michal Brzoza-; Szpunar, Piotr - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper we address some of the issues resulting from Poland's will to join the Economic and Monetary Union. Our …-Samuelson effect for Poland are provided. …

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Trends in East European Factor Productivity

Kyn, Oldrich; Kyn, Ludmila - EconWPA - 2005

the rate of technical change for Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania. Although the pooling eliminated … Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania and somewhat lower, but still respectable (3 - 5 per cent) in the case of Poland and Hungary. It … of total factor productivity over time we found that Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria experienced a quite considerably …

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Some benefits of reducing inflation in transition economies

Blaszkiewicz, Monika; Konieczny, Jerzy; Myslinskaa, Anna; … - EconWPA - 2003

We analyse welfare effects of the interactions between the tax system and inflation in Poland and in Ukraine, using the … the two transition countries than in developed marketeconomies. The reason is that taxation of investment returns is much … more limited. Our results suggest that taxes on investment returns should be avoided in any future redesign of the tax …

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Financial contagion, interest rates and the role of the exchange rate as shock absorber in Central and Eastern Europe

Habib, Maurizio Michael - EconWPA - 2002

Republic, Hungary and Poland during the period August 1997 – May 2001. I find that neither exchange rates nor interest rates …

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Transferring Rhineland Capitalism to the Polish-German Border: Perceptions of Bank Governance and Practice in Zgorzelec-Görlitz

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Locke, Robert; Müller, Kristine - EconWPA - 2005

This article looks at the past development and potential of the Rhenish capitalist model. We discuss the origins and nature of the model and the model in crisis. Because, we contend, Rhineland capitalism’s future will be decided in East-Central Europe, we focus – using a survey questionnaire...

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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EU AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND THE REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION OF AGRICULTURE IN POLAND

Crescenzi, Riccardo - EconWPA - 2004

The paper addresses the “spatial” structure of agriculture in Poland whose spatial development is analysed from the …

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Quality of Government Services and the Civic Duty to Pay Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and other Transition Countries

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

A 2002 survey of 1089 Czechs and 501 Slovaks, as well as a more limited survey of Hungary, and Poland, indicates that …

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