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A MESSAGE TO GORBACHEV:REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005
and privatization policies. This paper outlines a combination of policies believed to be necessary, if not sufficient to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062463
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The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003
adjustment process in order to avoid a crisis of constitutional authority. A program of “Socialist Privatization” is proposed as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118685
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PERESTROIKA AND SOCIALIST PRIVATIZATION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? AND HOW?
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003
of an egalitarian distribution of income and wealth? I propose a sequential set of stabilization, privatization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118763
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Privatization, Corporate Control and Regulatory Reform: The case of Telefonica
Bel, Germa; Trillas, Francesc - EconWPA - 2004
investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization … documented phenomenon both in this study and in the cross-country literature on privatization; e.g. political ends in … privatization, influence in appointments, golden shares) as the most visible part of such collusion. Liberalization and multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413213
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Corporate Governance as an instrument of change state owned Corporate Governance as an instrument of change state owned companies: The case of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organ...
Spanos, Loukas; Papoulias, Demetrios - EconWPA - 2005
’s case within the international debate regarding the privatization of state-owned companies and the importance of CG … mechanisms as instruments of change. It is argued that the privatization of state-owned companies, when is accompanied with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561676
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Labor Productivity and Inter-Sectoral Reallocation of Labor in Singapore (1965-2002)
Akkemik, K. Ali - EconWPA - 2005
This paper investigates the impact of the shifts of labor across sectors on aggregate productivity growth through a decomposition of aggregate productivity growth in Singapore over the period 1965-2002. The static shift-share analysis is utilized to for this purpose. The results show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062744
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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004
Nigeria is going through a difficult political and economic transition after decades of independence.Yet, Nigeria remains a society rich in cultural, linguistic, religious, ethnic and political diversity. Today, the average Nigerian struggles hard to make ends meet; sees himself or herself as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076578
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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Safety Nets: What Can the Caribbean Expect?
Theodore, Karl; Foucade, Althea Dianne La - EconWPA - 2001
By the end of 1999 HIV/AIDS was present in at least 200 countries and approximately 34.3 million people were living with the disease, 5.3 million of whom had been infected in that year alone (WHO 2000). Approximately 21.8 million persons had died from AIDS by 2000 and countries where life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076926
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Real and Pseudo Globalisation
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - EconWPA - 2002
The entire discussion about Globalisation that is prevalent today is about PSEUDO globalisation. It is apparently about opening economies for free trade. The need of the hour is not mere opening of economies, but one of opening hearts and minds.... Globalisation anchors for its success on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125537
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Dynamics of Income Distribution
Li, Hongyi; Xie, Danyang; Zou, Heng-fu - EconWPA - 2002
In this paper, we have obtained closed-form solutions in Cass-Koopmans growth models with heterogeneous agents. The relationship between the form of production function and the dynamics of income distribution is made explicit. We then use this relationship to determine what production structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125654