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In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one … of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human … human capital and economic growth in Bulgaria for the years of socialism and the transition. The purpose of the thesis is to …
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stocks at the beginning of transition to market economy? What happened to human capital formation during the transition? We … both communism and transition. Finally, we identify key policy and political measures which have affected human capital … transition was characterized by poor levels of human capital due to an educational crisis in the last decade of communism (then …
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The 2001 Russian tax reform reduced average tax rates for the personal income tax and the payroll or social tax. It also made the tax structure more regressive. Because individuals in the lower income bracket were for the most part not affected, it is possible to estimate the effects of the...
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The process of political and economic liberalisation in Benin is regarded as a model for the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa. Benin made history by becoming the first African country to overthrow a military dictator by democratic means. The civilian coup d'état cleared the way for economic...
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The Russian experience showed that macroeconomic performance in the transition economy is crucially dependent of the …
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Kornai's autobiography presents an interesting perspective of the intellectual environment of a Central European country of real socialism such as Hungary, from the Stalinist after-war years to the progressively more relaxed, but still constraining, atmosphere of the sixties and later. Of...
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Using for the first time survey data from 26 post-Communist countries, covering the period 1990-2005, the paper examines correlates of unprecedented increases in inequality registered by most of these economies. We find that, after controlling for country-fixed effects and type of survey used,...
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The political and economic transition posed a complex, tremendous challenge in Hungary in the beginning of the 1990s … the longer run. Having completed the first round of transition, Hungary has again reached a cross-roads. While the one … the transition process, emphasising the simultaneous need for systemic changes and macroeconomic stabilisation in order to …
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The transition of several East and Central European countries and the countries of the Former Soviet Union from the … level of the per capita GDP are used to describe the transition process. The developed transition model contains only three … transition process finished in the Central European countries several years ago and their economic evolution is defined by pure …
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This essay deals with the issues of privatisation and restructuring in transition economies. The topics are addressed …
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