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Coordinating Aid for Regional Cooperation Projects: The Experience of Central Asia

Pomfret, Richard - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

regional cooperation projects (e.g., on the Aral Sea or trade facilitation) whose economic benefits appear positive. Bilateral …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001307

Income Distribution during the Transition in China

Ping, Z. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1997

This paper's goal is to increase the understanding of the inequality trends during the transitional period in China. From 1978 to 1995, China has been undergoing 18 years far-reaching economic system reform and opening to the outside world nationwide. During the transitional periods, the average...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661035

Health and the Urban Transition Effects of Household Perceptions, Illness, and Environmental Pollution on Clean Water Investment

Spencer, James H. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

important urbanization processes in poor countries. This paper describes an emerging ‘health transition’ and the importance of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507947

The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?

Roland, Gerald - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests …. Current institutional evolutions in transition countries might be more affected by their long run past than by the communist …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490134

The Travails of Unification: East Germany's Economic Transition since 1990

Maier, Charles S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

The former German Democratic Republic underwent a unique post-communist transition because it was absorbed into the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493676

Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is still Kicking: the Case of Russia

Ofer, Gur - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had … achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493677

Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Houshold Survey Data, 1990-2006

Milanovic, Branko; Ersado, Lire - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

This paper, using for the first time household survey data from 26 post-communist countries, covering the period 1990-2005, examines correlates of unprecedented increases in inequality registered by most of these economies. We find that, after controlling

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Misuse of Institutions: Lessons from Transition

Polishchuk, Leonid - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused … institutional misuse (illustrated by examples from Russian transition), discuss its consequences, and explore reasons why …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500393

Twenty Years of Political Transition

Tresiman, Daniel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

transition can be parsimoniously explained by two variables: the length of time the country spent under a communist regime and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469779

Lessons from the Transition Economies: Putting the Success Stories of the Postcommunist World into a Broader Perspective

Popov, Vladimir - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

Why many transition economies succeeded by pursuing policies that are so different from the radical economic …

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