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The ‘Cuban safety-valve theory’ explains sustained survival of Cuban socialism in part through the high levels of emigration, following Hirschman’s model of ‘exit’ undermining ‘voice’. The article argues that this remains insufficient in two important ways. Taking a closer look at...
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The 2003 Energy review,contains information about the 2003 energy situation of each of our member countries, regional data, as well as economic and social indicators corrected and extended through historical series. It presents and innovative structure for analysis that allows the reader to...
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India Port report by I-maritime, Mumbai presents a broader prospect of Indian port sector with a public policy prospective and has integrated focal points of different business entity like, shipping lines, port authority, port operators, logistics agencies and types of cargo transported by...
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intransigence of the previous regime the IMF and World Bank have taken advantage of political change in Malawi to push a reform … stagnation. The enthusiasm of the World Bank and IMF in pushing for continued reform is further hurting the economy and pushing … reform process, and also allow reasonable time for adjustment, the Bank and Fund is keen to push for reform without shaping …
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voters' welfare. We find that the designers of a successful reform need to have information that is privately held by … candidates. The redistributive effects of a reform and how that would affect the popularity of the reform is discussed as well …. Finally, we argue that a welfare-improving reform that would reduce the corruption may not be supported by both corrupt and …
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The economic performance of Vietnam in the 1990s would be classified as a “miracle” if such achievements were not so common in Asia in the latter half of the twentieth century. GDP growth rates between 8.1 percent to 9.5 percent during 1992-97 were led by industry and services, though the...
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— the evaluative framework used for assessing reform proposals and the development of implementation strategies to give … involve explicit consideration of the likely benefits, costs and distributional effects of reform proposals, not just for …
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Government to examine the contribution that national reform of building regulation has made and further reform could make to the … in reform of building regulation and to negotiate a new Intergovernmental Agreement. The agreement would clarify the … objectives of building regulation reform; strengthen the commitment to national consistency; and also affirm the importance of a …
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, as a ‘bottom-up’ solution, rather than continuing attempts to force through ‘top-down’ reform of the existing state …
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This essay originated from the discussions of the role of central plan in an economic system with a functioning market mechanism. Such discussions emerged because of the implementation of the 'New Economic System'in Czechoslovakia. Under the old system, the role of the plan was considered clear...
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