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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 in Services (GATS) to commit to service sector policy reforms. They compare GATS commitments with the evolution of actual policy stances over time. While there is substantial...
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"Major changes have occurred in the structure of former centrally planned economies, including a sharp rise in the share of services in GDP, employment, and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition economies with respect to services intensity and services...
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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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performance, evolving patterns of specialization, Romania's competitiveness in EU sunrise markets, changes in factor intensities … of trade with the EU, and 'intra-product' trade, Kaminski and Ng conclude that Romania's export offer has become … maintaining macroeconomic stabilty and keeping wage increases in line with productivity growth, as well as increasing Romania …
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"Javorcik, Saggi, and Spatareanu use a firm-level panel data set from Romania to examine whether the nationality of … cover some but not other source economies. In this case, the Association Agreement signed between Romania and the European … American or Asian multinationals. Therefore, one would expect that American and Asian investors source more from Romania than …
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