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Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies
Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2009
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394105
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Services policy reform and economic growth in transition economies, 1990-2004
Eschenbach, Felix - 2005
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522537
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Trends in corruption and regulatory burden : Eastern Europe and Central Asia
2011
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Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia : a critique of the cross-country indicators
Knack, Stephen F. - 2006
"This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and …. Data from firm surveys tend to show improvement in most types of administrative corruption, but little change in "state … capture" in the region. Broader, subjective corruption indicators tend to show somewhat greater improvement in ECA than in non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522094
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Trends in corruption and regulatory burden in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
2011
democracy and market-based economies. These obstacles include higher levels of corruption, and greater administrative and … regulatory burdens as they pass laws and implement programs to combat corruption and promote private sector development. This … in corruption and administrative burden of regulations on private sector firms in 29 Eastern European and Central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550385
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Millennium Development Goals for Health in Europe and Central Asia : Relevance and Policy Implications
World Bank - 2013
This study aims to contribute to the debate about the appropriateness of health-related Millennium Development Goals … focus of their health-related development assistance to the countries of the ECA region. The study examines how appropriate … the health-related MDGs are for the countries of the ECA region by analyzing the impact of the following four scenarios on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563853
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Services policies in transition economies : on the European Union and the World Trade Organization as commitment mechanisms
Eschenbach, Felix - 2006
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522111
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Reforming education finance in transition countries : six case studies in per capita financing systems
2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550443
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Africa Development Indicators 2010: Silent and Lethal : How Quiet Corruption Undermines Africa's Development Efforts
World Bank - 2010
delivery and regulation has adverse long-term effects on households. The term "quiet corruption" is introduced to indicate … service provision) that do not involve monetary exchange. The prevalence of quiet corruption and its long-term consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393469