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In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance in the United States? This paper attempts to...
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L'article présente brièvement deux questions fondamentales relatives aux liens entre l'entrepreneuriat et la croissance économique. La première question s'intéresse à leurs rapports endogènes. Nous suggérons en particulier que si plus d'entrepreneurs peut signifier plus de croissance...
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The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...
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Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...
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This paper decomposes the large regression residuals of income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs) into Solow and Solow-like parts. Decomposition is accomplished algebraically. The calculations find a weak to negative correlation between income and Solow residuals, and a strong...
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Mismeasurement of inflation is likely to be more severe in a transition economy than in a more stable environment … real output and living standards during the transition may be a statistical artifact rather than a real phenomenon. …
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The transition from a planned to a market oriented economy requires a complex amalgam of stabilization, liberalization … safety for citizens during the transition process. Reference: Challenge, May/June 1990, pp. 46-53 …
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sequence of institutional, macroeconomic and monetary reform aimed at achieving a stable transition. An egalitarian … reforms if the transition process is to achive the goals of efficiency and equity. The paper is to be published in the Cato …
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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 … large agricultural sector and an industrial sector; a large centrally planned segment and a market segment. The transition …
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liberalization policies designed to provide the necessary, albeit not sufficient conditions, for a transition from a planned to a … composed of “citizen shares” to cushion the disruptions and lessen the hardships of the transition process. This paper …
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