"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 vary across regions, coinciding with differences in policies and …

land issues in Nicaragua is a priority - high levels of tenure insecurity, lack of clear property rights and the …

In January 1999, Poland launched a new pension system that was the result of 5-6 years of broad outreach campaigns and … without undermining the long-term viability of the reformed pension system. Post-communist Poland operated on a traditional … and Poland had one of the highest spending rates of any post-communist transition country. In addition, long …

privatization and restructuring agenda might have negative effects on productivity, in parallel to poor investment climate. Another …

' perceptions of property rights protection. Their sample includes private and public firms that vary in size from very small to … legal organization and ownership structure are comparable to institutional factors in explaining variation in property … rights protection. A country's legal origin and formalism index predict property rights variation better than its openness to …

headings: (i) overview of land tenure and land markets; (ii) the current property rights regimes (statutory and customary …