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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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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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"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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political economy explanation of why institution building has varied so much across transition economies. They identify … institution building during transition by influencing the political structure and process during the initial years. Their … governments are more likely to see former communists remain in power and to start the transition process with less open political …
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, poverty-reducing growth depends heavily on the ability of the economy to generate jobs. During the early years of transition … post-transition economic growth and poverty reduction"--World Bank web site …
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Removing regulatory obstacles that create barriers to business is a major objective for economic policymakers. There is broad understanding among policymakers and development practitioners that microeconomic reforms aimed at strengthening property rights, unleashing competition, and reducing the...
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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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Serbia needs to transition to a greener growth model for internal and external reasons. Internally, Serbia's economy is … Mechanism (CBAM). This report draws from a rich analysis to provide recommendations on how the transition to greener and more … green transition. Second, institutional frameworks need to be strengthened to support the government in delivering on …
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Poland's economic development story is one of success: since the early 1990s, the country has transitioned to a market economy, integrated into the European Union economy and global supply chains and sustained robust growth, avoiding the middle-income trap and increasing the resilience of its...
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This Note examines the potential of the mining sector to be a source of growth for the Afghanistan economy. In order to address this fundamental and strategic issue, this Note will ask and provide answers to three principal questions. First, what is the potential in Afghanistan for large and...
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