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The demise of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR signaled a rush to privatization in Central and Eastern …-owned-and-operated enterprises to private owners and/or managers in order to create a viable private sector, capital markets and other institutions … and processes, which describe a free market capitalist system. However, the pace of privatization has not been the same …
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and supervisory institutions have been set-up. The reforms, though slow paced initially but well synchronized, have begun …
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During the 1980s and the 1990s, private investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has on average shown a decreasing or stagnant trend. This contrasts with the situation of the Asian economies, where private investment has always been more dynamic. In this paper, it is empirically...
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Empirical evidence suggests that the size of the informal sector in the developing countries has increased considerably during the liberalized economic regime. The present paper purports to analyze the consequences of economic reforms on the wellbeing of the informal sector workforce using a...
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The purpose of this article is to examine the different possible paths the Pakistan People’s Party could take following its coming into power in December 1971. For this purpose the paper examines the economic and political forces that were operating in the country at that time, the main...
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This article hypothesizes that economic reforms become sustainable when the discursive conditions prevailing in society tip against the existing paradigm under exceptional circumstances. Thus, unless the pro-liberalization constituencies dominate the development discourse, economic reforms,...
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Globalization of the Indian industry received significant thrust since July 1991. It is expected that the reforms will be beneficial for growth. Few would deny that there would be transitional costs. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the changes in employment that will be required across...
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The present study has made attempt to examine the historical trends in the power and its impact on the state economy and to explore the scope for enhancing its generation capacity in the state
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A simple three-sector general equilibrium model has been developed with both male and female labour and factor market distortions. The effects of different liberalized economic policies have been examined on the gender-based wage inequality. The analysis finds that credit market reform and...
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In this paper we extend the benchmark model of Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides in a two-sector general equilibrium framework by introducing a frictionless segment of the labour market. The two sectors are the frictionless informal sector and the frictional formal sector where match friction is the...
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