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"Anderson, Damania, and Jackson develop a common-agency lobbying model to help understand why North America and the European Union have adopted such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Their results show that when firms (in this case farmers) lobby policymakers to influence...
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structural model estimated on quarterly data for Macedonia and Slovakia over 1995-2007. The success of macroeconomic … Slovakia, the authors find that Macedonia has relatively weaker transmission mechanisms of monetary policy, higher output … relative to Slovakia. Hence, it appears that small, open economies with stronger economic rigidities should apply monetary …
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's generally high living standards and overall level of development, there are families in Slovakia whose living conditions are …
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The Slovak Republic's external current account and fiscal deficits (net of privatization receipts) are unsustainably high (at about 8 percent of GDP in 2002), despite some recent declines. With a capital account surplus of perhaps 20 percent of GDP this year, the Slovak Republic may not find it...
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There is wide agreement that the radical and comprehensive package of reforms implemented by the 2002 government has positioned the Slovak Republic well-not only in relation to other EU8 countries but also in relation to the EU15-in terms of increased competitiveness and employment...
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practices in the Slovak Republic. Slovakia has already upgraded its legislation to meet European Union (EU) Directives. The … benchmark against which to measure corporate governance in Slovakia. …
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An International Monetary Fund-World Bank team assessed Slovakia's financial sector in the context of the Financial … financial sector. This report gives an overall assessment of the financial sector in Slovakia. The report gives an updated …-bank financial institutions, pension funds, capital markets and the financial infrastructure of Slovakia. The report also discusses …
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qualitative information, collected through field visits in Eastern Slovakia and through interviews with key stakeholders from the … a distant goal for Slovakia. The remainder of this report provides an overview of the assessment of the situation in … in Eastern Slovakia held school segregation as illegal. More of such cases may emerge, especially in light of the 2007 …
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