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Dividing the spoils : pensions, privatization, and reform in Russia's transition
Kapstein, Ethan B. - 2000
The gains from the transition in post-communist Russia were captured by the new managerial class, which won rents from … industrial restructuring. With neither pension reform nor industrial restructuring, Russia's economy has continued to shrink … pays little to pensioners (as in Russia).The authors apply this model to Russia for the period 1992-96. An empirical …
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Poverty in Russia : public policy and private responses
Klugman, Jeni (contributor) - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010525427
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Russia : Reducing Poverty through Growth and Social Policy Reform
World Bank - 2012
The report is based on analysis of the main facets and dynamics of poverty in Russia since 1997. The analysis was …
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China 2030 : building a modern, harmonious, and creative society
2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393883
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Lessons from World Bank research on financial crises
Development Research Group - 2008
"The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520980
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Timing and duration of exposure in evaluations of social programs
King, Elizabeth M. - 2008
"Impact evaluations aim to measure the outcomes that can be attributed to a specific policy or intervention. Although there have been excellent reviews of the different methods that an evaluator can choose in order to estimate impact, there has not been sufficient attention given to questions...
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A new social contract for Peru : an agenda for improving education, health care, and the social safety net
Cotlear, Daniel (contributor) - 2006
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Toward a social policy for Argentina's infrastructure sectors : evaluating the past and exploring the future
Foster, Vivien - 2004
"Argentina was a pioneer of infrastructure reform in the early 1990s. The social dimension of infrastructure services was typically overlooked in the reform process. However, social sensitivities often resurfaced in the years that followed, leading to a series of ad hoc social policy measures...
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