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Outward foreign direct investment and domestic investment : the case of developing countries

Al-Sadig, Ali J. - 2013

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Local governments’ fiscal balance, privatization, and banking sector reform in transition countries

Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012

Several transition economies have undertaken fiscal decentralization reforms over the past two decades along with liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances, unless the right incentives are in place to promote...

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Taxing immovable property : revenue potential and implementation challenges

Nørregaard, John - 2013

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The Russian state’s size and its footprint : have they increased?

Di Bella, Gabriel; Dynnikova, Oksana; Slavov, Slavi - 2019

The short answer: The size of the Russian State has not increased much in the last few years, but its economic footprint remains significant. Concretely, the state's size increased from about 32 percent of GDP in 2012 to 33 percent in 2016, not far from the EBRD's estimate of 35 percent for...

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Taking down the wall : transition and inequality

Cevik, Serhan; Correa-Caro, Carolina - 2020

This paper investigates the main determinants of income inequality in transition countries during the period 1990 … inequality: the potential endogeneity of income growth, which is largely ignored by most empirical studies. We adopt a two … relationship between income inequality and the level of economic development. We also find that the redistributive impact of fiscal …

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Monetary Instruments and their Use During the Transition From a Centrally Planned to a Market Economy

Hilbers, Paul Louis Ceriel - 1993

This paper discusses different instruments of monetary policy, and in particular the choice between direct and indirect instruments. It identifies the main characteristics of a country’s financial system that should be considered in selecting monetary instruments, and analyzes how these...

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Money Demand, Bank Credit, and Economic Performance in Former Socialist Economies

Kumar, Manmohan S. - 1994

This paper examines factors determining the allocation of bank credit to the enterprise sector, and the implications of this allocation for aggregate supply and macro-economic performance, in the former socialist economies. It first develops a model to explain how changes in demand for money by...

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Compliance with IMF Program Indicators and Growth in Transition Economies

Unigovskaya, Anna - 2000

This paper makes use of the IMF’s Database for Monitoring Fund Arrangements (MONA) to investigate whether transition countries that more successfully implement the conditionality of IMF programs tend to show a better performance on recovery and growth. It is not possible to determine a...

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The Transition Economies After Ten Years

Fischer, Stanley - 2000

This paper summarizes the macroeconomic performance of the transition economies. We first review the initial conditions confronting these economies, the reform strategy that was proposed, and the associated controversies that arose a decade ago. We then account for the widely different outcomes,...

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Corruption, Structural Reforms, and Economic Performance in the Transition Economies

Abed, George T. - 2000

Recent studies have highlighted the adverse impact of corruption on economic performance. This paper advances the hypothesis that corruption is largely a symptom of underlying weaknesses in public policies and institutions, a formulation that provides deeper insights into economic performance...

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