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Informal Payments and Moonlighting in Tajikistan's Health Sector

Dabalen, Andrew; Wane, Waly - 2012

from health workers, during a recent public expenditure tracking survey in Tajikistan's health sector. Using informal …

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Fiscal Policy for Growth and Development in Tajikistan

Brownbridge, Martin; Canagarajah, Sudharshan - 2012

Tajikistan's economy has recovered strongly after the collapse of the 1990s, but sustaining rapid economic growth over …

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Social Spending, Distribution, and Equality of Opportunities : Opportunity Incidence Analysis

Cuesta, Jose - 2013

"opportunity incidence analysis" to six pilot countries: Liberia, Cote d Ivoire, Zambia, Tajikistan, Thailand, and Paraguay. Three …

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Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare Be Trusted? Evidence for Three Developing Countries

Ravallion, Martin; Himelein, Kristen; Beegle, Kathleen - 2014

uses specially-designed surveys in three countries, Tajikistan, Guatemala, and Tanzania, to study scale heterogeneity …

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Late Banking Transitions : Comparing Uzbekistan to Earlier Reformers

Babasyan, Davit; Gu, Yunfan; Melecky, Martin - 2022

Uzbekistan is one of the late transition economies. This paper compares the early experience and challenges that … Uzbekistan confronts in transitioning its banking system to market principles against the earlier experience with banking … data on Uzbekistan's banking sector, the data on past transition economies, and qualitative and quantitative evidence from …

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External Finance and Firm Survival in the Aftermath of the Crisis : Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Clarke, George R.G.; Cull, Robert; Kisunko, Gregory - 2012

Two data sets are used to study how country and firm characteristics affected firms' financial constraints and their likelihood of survival during the early phase of the recent global financial crisis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a region that was especially hard hit. The first data...

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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2012

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps between male and female-owned businesses, while controlling for location by industry and country. The findings show that female entrepreneurs have a significantly smaller scale of...

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Technology Adoption and the Investment Climate : Firm-Level Evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Correa, Paulo G.; Fernandes, Ana M.; Uregian, Chris J. - 2012

The international diffusion of technology presents an opportunity for developing economies distant from the world technological frontier to reduce their income gap relative to advanced economies. It is therefore crucial to understand why, when faced with similar technological alternatives...

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Customer Market Power and the Provision of Trade Credit : Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Van Horen, Neeltje - 2012

Statistics show that the sale of goods on credit is widespread among firms even when they are capital constrained and thus face relatively high costs in providing trade credit. This study provides an explanation for this by arguing that customers who possess strong market power are able to...

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Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Trade : New Estimates for Central Asian Countries

Grigoriou, Christopher - 2012

This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large sample of countries (167 countries over 1992-2004). The panel structure of the dataset makes it possible to control for country-pair specific...

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