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"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...
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"The authors analyze the extent to which the EU-15 and 16 transition economies used the WTO General Agreement on Trade … policy stances over time. While there is substantial variance across transition economies on both actual policies and GATS … GATS less relevant as a commitment device for a subset of transition economies. But for many of the non-EU accession …
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share of services in GDP, employment, and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition … services policy reform are statistically significant explanatory variables for the post-1990 economic performance of transition …
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As Russia continues to make rapid general progress in building modem market institutions, the complex spatial dimension of transformation in the country will continue to present strong policy challenges for many years to come. In fact, these challenges are arguably becoming progressively...
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. The report starts with the hypothesis that Russia's economy is still "in transition," with further scope to boost growth …
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Russia is reforming its education system to meet the needs of the country's evolving economic structure with its changing focus on information and services. This is known as the information - or knowledge - economy. The reform effort is now being expanded to incorporate the support that...
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This book reviews the experience with one specific though widely introduced approach to funding general education, namely per capita financing (PCF), in six countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region in an effort to learn which outcomes were achieved and how. Per capita financing is a...
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