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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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"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 paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, 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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"Drawing on the recent literature on economic institutions and the origins of economic development, the authors offer a … systems, with negative repercussions for the development of market-compatible institutions. Using natural resource reliance … importance of institutions in explaining the variation in economic development and growth across transition economies during the …
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through laissez-faire market mechanisms, and a government needs to establish nonmarket institutions to implement the strategy …
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Knowledge and Institutions: linking modern and indigenous institutions for sustainable development and enhancing local community … access to markets, government agencies, financial institutions, university based research centers and international …
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"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...
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