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Despite the recent growth resurgence, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the poorest region in the world. At the same time, it is a region that heavily relies on natural resources. In this paper we investigate the extent to which the second fact helps explain the first one. The distinctive feature...
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The Chinese state undertakes large scale investments in a number of countries under the auspices of economic cooperation related investment (ECI). While there are suggestions that it is an extension of China‟s soft power aimed at facilitating Chinese FDI in those countries, often for access to...
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Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
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Only a successful implementation of an overall reform program will enable Russian banks to provide financial intermediation and assist in the country's development from a nascent market economy to a mature financial system. The chances for reform are better now than at any time during the last...
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The reasons why small business development has been disappointing in Russia compared with other transition countries …
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contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159 software entrepreneurs in Beijing and Moscow, the study found that …
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There is a widespread opinion that goods, especially foods, and services in Russia are very cheap as compared to the US … in Russia. A comparison of Russian actual prices for foods with those in the US evidences that they are comparable …
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operating in Russia. Based on a large-scale empirical study of 179 firms and four in-depth case studies, this study examines the …
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implications constitutes the main contribution of the paper. The effect of wealth redistribution on economic growth in Russia is …
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In this article, I compare personal networks of Chinese and Russian entrepreneurs in terms of network structure, relationships and resources accessed in networks. The Chinese data is composed of longitudinal phone interviews with 94 Internet entrepreneurs in Beijing, and the Russian data is...
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