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Migration and Economic Development in Kosovo
World Bank - 2013
Kosovo has one of the largest international migration flows in the world. Much emigration has been for economic reasons and to escape armed conflict in the late 1990s; resolution of the conflict does not appear to have offered migrants enough incentive to return. Even though migration slowed...
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Introduction and summary to the handbook of trade policy and WTO accession for development in Russia and the CIS
Tarr, David - 2005
Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS. The key policy conclusions of each of the chapters are highlighted in this … described here is available on the website www.worldbank.org/trade/russia-wto. This paper first explains the potential … first part treats trade policy (with applications to Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS]). The second …
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Lights out? : the outlook for energy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
2010
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Technology adoption and the investment climate : firm-level evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Corrêa, Paulo Henrique da Rocha da Rocha - 2008
"The international diffusion of technology presents an opportunity for developing economies distant from the world technological frontier to reduce their income gap relative to advanced economies. It is therefore crucial to understand why, when faced with similar technological alternatives...
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Economic implications of chronic illness and disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
Mete, Cem (contributor) - 2008
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Labor market developments during economic transition
Rutkowski, Jan - 2006
"The paper reviews labor market developments in the transition economies of Europe and Central Asia. It argues that the scarcity of productive job opportunities and the growing labor market segmentation are the two main labor market problems facing the transition economies. In the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522166
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Constraints to growth and job creation in low-income commonwealth of independent states countries
Verme, Paolo - 2006
"Despite sustained output growth since 1997, low-income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (CIS-7) have not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless growth." The author addresses the causes of this...
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Technological asymmetry among foreign investors and mode of entry
Saggi, Kamal - 2004
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Integrating housing wealth into the social safety net : the elderly in Moscow
Buckley, Robert M. - 2003
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