This paper investigates the strategic role of Kazakhstan's development institutions in programmes for economic diversification, based on the state target of strengthening national competitiveness. The author analyses the primary challenge for the state from the long-term perspective: mechanisms...

Our paper comes in the course of the New Institutional Economics which emphasises the supremacy of institutional reforms on the economic framework. Recently, measures and proxies notions of 'governance' and 'institutions' have stimulated empirical research in economics and political science. The...

This paper examines persistent concerns that trade openness in South-East Europe is much less advanced than it was for the former CEECs in the mid to late 1990s. Using econometric tests, we find that trade patterns appear to remain problematic. Second, partial equilibrium simulations are used to...

This paper investigates the strategic role of Kazakhstan's development institutions in programmes for economic diversification, based on the state target of strengthening national competitiveness. The author analyses the primary challenge for the state from the long-term perspective: mechanisms...

Our paper comes in the course of the New Institutional Economics which emphasises the supremacy of institutional reforms on the economic framework. Recently, measures and proxies notions of 'governance' and 'institutions' have stimulated empirical research in economics and political science. The...

This paper examines persistent concerns that trade openness in South-East Europe is much less advanced than it was for the former CEECs in the mid to late 1990s. Using econometric tests, we find that trade patterns appear to remain problematic. Second, partial equilibrium simulations are used to...