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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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This paper presents a simple theoretical framework to explain variations in income inequality over time and between … countries. It also analyses the factors responsible for the widespread rise in inequality during the neo-liberal reforms of 1980 … compares the decline in inequality observed in most of Latin America over 2000-2008 with the steady increase of inequality in …
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This paper examines whether political connections ease financial constraints faced by firms. Using firm-level data from six Central and Eastern European economies, the paper shows that politically connected firms: (i) have high levels of leverage, (ii) have low levels of profitability, (iii) are...
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speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …
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This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
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transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini …
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