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, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …
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a methodology that accounts for positive spillovers between the structural reform areas, we estimate that even under the …
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This paper studies the macroeconomic effects and sequencing of (LMRs) and product (PMRs) market reforms in Morocco. It … effective if this reform takes place after the implementation of LMRs and PMRs …
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capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move … governments throughout the economy sought to capture these rents by developing high margin industries. Continued reform, and …, leading local governments to impose a variety of interregional barriers to trade. Thus, the reform process led to the …
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Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control. Small state-owned firms were privatized or closed. Large state-owned firms were corporatized and merged into large industrial groups under the control of the Chinese state. The...
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reduction in the deficit bias and the induced reduction in the amount of structural reform. A pact becomes more attractive …
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instruments, particularly in the case of fiscal policy. As a result of reform, economic management requires the use of “indirect …
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limitations on labor’s bargaining power are examined, and the implications for privatization are considered. It is shown that some … combination of tax reform and debt reduction may be a precondition for market-oriented reforms …
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The paper reviews the main structural reform issues facing Arab countries in the remainder of the 1990s. While the …
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Structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs is designed to support structural reforms by countries borrowing from the IMF. Taking stock of program conditions and their implementation, this paper finds that conditionality focuses on fiscal, monetary and financial issues-areas where IMF...
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