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Productivity Growth and Structural Reform in Bulgaria : Restarting the Convergence Engine

Pouvelle, Cyril - 2012

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural problems in its labor market, reflected in its...

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Growth and Structural Reforms : A New Assessment

Christiansen, Lone Engbo - 2009

This paper presents a simultaneous assessment of the relationship between economic performance and three groups of economic reforms: domestic finance, trade, and the capital account. Among these, domestic financial reforms, and trade reforms, are robustly associated with economic growth, but...

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Stabilization and Structural Change in Russia, 1992-94

Koen, Vincent - 1995

Macroeconomic stabilization and structural reforms in Russia since 1992 have been proceeding in a rather chaotic fashion. The Russian variety of economic gradualism has seen a sharp decline in output, though less than indicated by official statistics, and relatively resilient household...

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Macroeconomic Adjustment and Reform in Planned Economies

International Monetary Fund - 1990

This paper examines the relationship between macroeconomic stabilization and market-oriented reform in planned economies. It emphasizes that market-oriented reform should enhance the likelihood that adjustment to exogenous disturbances will involve genuine adjustment in the sense of actually...

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External Sector Reform and Public Enterprise Restructuring

Bhattacharya, Rina - 2000

countries—namely Algeria, Egypt, and Poland—have tackled reforms in these areas …

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Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition

Prasad, Eswar - 2002

This paper documents that inequality in labor earnings increased substantially during the economic transition in Poland … that even state-owned enterprises in Poland moved toward competitive wage setting during the transition. Education premia …-group inequality in Poland were very different across skill groups, with much larger increases for highly educated workers …