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CORRUPTION AROUND THE WORLD: EVIDENCE FROM A STRUCTURAL MODEL
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 2004
The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125948
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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003
This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561191
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Rethinking Governance: Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy
Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
In this discussion draft, linking research findings with concrete operational challenges, we review key issues in worldwide governance, and present recent empirical evidence. Focusing on defining and unbundling key governance components, such as rule of law, voice and accountability, corruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561333
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Optimal Central Planning in 'Competitive Solution'
Kyn, Oldrich; Rychetnik, Ludek - EconWPA - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407668
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ECONOMIC REFORM , LABOUR TRAINING AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR- A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS.*
Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar - EconWPA - 2005
We consider a small open Harris-Todaro (1970) economy complementing global exposure, informal labour training and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408276
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Evaluating the compatibility of economic reform with political liberalisation in poor african countries -the case of malawi
Stambuli, P. Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002
This paper investigates claims that fundamental policy changes aiming to disengage the state from the economy do not … up the market and unleashing popular participation in the economy, economic reform facilitates convergence of a free … society and a market economy. The paper also argues that political rhetoric signalling the reversal of economic reforms as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412544
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the Transition Process in China: A theoretic and empirical Study
Pu, Chen; Chihying, Hsiao - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we analyse the driving forces of the transition from plan to market in China. A two segments and two … sectors model is constructed to take into account the particular economic situation in China during the transition process: a … from plan to market is described by the increasing share the market segment in the whole economy on the one hand and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556000
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The political economy of reforms: Empirical evidence from post- communist transition in the 1990s
Kim, Byung-Yeon; Pirttilä, Jukka - EconWPA - 2003
Using a novel data set from post-communist countries in the 1990s, this paper examines linkages between political constraints, economic reforms and growth. A dynamic panel analysis suggests public support for reform is negatively associated with income inequality and unemployment. Both the ex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561205
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THE ROLE OF PRICES IN A SOCIALIST ECONOMY
Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005
This is a paper presented at the East-West economic conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1964. The paper outlines the main features of price policy in the Soviet-type socialist system of Eastern Europe. All the prices were centrally fixed, with the main aim to achieve planned standard of living for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118717
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Ota Sik - Der lange Weg zur Einsicht
Kyn, Oldrich; Slama, Jiri - EconWPA - 2005
This is a brief but critical survey of the life and accomplishments of the Czech economist Ota Sik. He joint Communist Youth organization already before the WWII. During the war, he was in the Mauthausen concentration camp, together with the future secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118796