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traditional areas of first-generation reform and the areas of institutional reform that have been emphasized lately. These policy … authors first discuss the general principles underlying market-oriented reform. Second, they present various indicators of the … the process of economic reform"--World Bank web site …
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services policy reform are statistically significant explanatory variables for the post-1990 economic performance of transition …
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There has been no single magic formula for the success of the East Asian transition economies (Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Vietnam), whose performance in export and income growth has been strikingly better than that of transition economies in Eastern Europe and the...
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reforms will harm their economic interests. Whether such opposition can stall reform depends on the aggregate political weight …
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"Estache, Perelman, and Trujillo review about 80 studies on electricity and gas, water and sanitation, and rail and ports (with a footnote on telecommunications) in developing countries. The main policy lesson is that there is a difference in the relevance of ownership for efficiency between...
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"Systematic information on household financial asset holdings in developing countries is very sparse. The author reviews some available data and current policy debates. Although financial asset holdings by households are highly concentrated, deeper financial systems are correlated with improved...
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"Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct investment. The authors use data on workers' remittance flows to 99 developing countries from 1975-2003 to study the impact of remittances on financial sector development. In...
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"The empirical literature on finance and development suggests that countries with better developed financial systems experience faster economic growth. Financial development-as captured by size, depth, efficiency, and reach of financial systems-varies sharply around the world, with large...
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illustrative applications, based on a SPAHD model for Niger, to highlight the link between tax reform and aid requirements …
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