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The Transition Economies After Ten Years
Fischer, Stanley - 2000
While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...
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Measuring the Impacts of FDI in Central and Eastern Europe
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2006
The impacts of inward FDI on host countries are frequently studied using balance-of-payments based measures of flows and stocks. These are unreliable for the purpose because, while theories of the effects of investment are based on FDI production and employment in the host country, these...
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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later
Godoy, Sergio - 2006
This paper examines alternative hypotheses concerning the determinants of success in the transition from Communism to the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more important in explaining the growth of the transition...
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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...
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Household Savings in Transition Economies
Denizer, Cevdet - 1998
Based on matching household surveys for three central European countries, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland, we explore the determinants of household saving rates in transition economies. We find savings rates to increase strongly in relative income and to be significantly higher for households...
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Rebalancing Growth in Asia
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
growth rates for the key emerging markets and other developing economies in Asia. China has by far the lowest share of … private consumption to GDP in Asia and, during this decade, has recorded the lowest rate of employment growth relative to GDP … and Vietnam. <br> <br>To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving …
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The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 2009
spectacular advances of the economies of China, India, and Southeast Asia. Section 1 reviews the debate over the sources of … the new recognition among Western economists that the sustained, very rapid growth in China and Southeast Asia was …
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The Impact of China on the Exports of Other Asian Countries
Eichengreen, Barry - 2004
We analyze the impact of China's growth on the exports of other Asian countries. Our innovation is to distinguish the increase in China's demand for imports from its increased penetration of export markets. Using the gravity model, we disaggregate among commodity types and account for the...
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High Performing Asian Economies
Fogel, Robert W. - 2004
To American and European economists in 1945, the countries of Asia were unpromising candidates for high economic growth … Asia experienced vigorous economic growth, some with growth rates far exceeding the previous growth rates of the … economic growth would falter, proved to be incorrect. Growth rates will probably continue at high levels in Southeast Asia for …
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Should Exact Index Numbers Have Standard Errors? Theory and Application to Asian Growth
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004
In this paper we derive the standard error of a price index when both prices and tastes or technology are treated as stochastic. Changing tastes or technology are a reason for the weights in the price index to be treated as stochastic, which can interact with the stochastic prices themselves. We...
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