Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined … the Arab Spring and based on cross-country experience, this paper concludes that sustainable and inclusive growth calls … for a two pronged approach: short term measures that revive growth momentum and partially allay popular concerns …

This paper analyzes the relationship between fiscal adjustment and real GDP growth in a panel of 26 transition … statistically significant relationship between fiscal adjustment and growth that is robust to different model specifications and …

risk of conflict recurrence as an explanatory variable in the growth regression, because post-conflict countries have a …

This paper reexamines growth in transition using panel data to 1997. It suggests that output has been strongly affected … by export market growth; that inflation has been associated with weaker output only above a threshold inflation rate …; that structural reform has been associated with weaker output initially, but that it stimulates higher growth thereafter …

then engages in a numerical, somewhat speculative, exercise to assess the long-run growth potential of the transition …

We revisit Lipset's law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using … democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …

80 presidential and parliamentary democracies between 1975 and2012, we find that the rate of growth of public investment … is higher at the beginning of electoral cycles and decelerates thereafter. The peak in public investment growth occurs …