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Technology adoption and the investment climate : firm-level evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Corrêa, Paulo Henrique da Rocha da Rocha - 2008

"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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Productivity and the investment climate : what matters most?

Bastos, Fabiano - 2004

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Labor market developments during economic transition

Rutkowski, Jan - 2006

"The paper reviews labor market developments in the transition economies of Europe and Central Asia. It argues that the … facing the transition economies. In the European transition economies the lack of jobs has led to persistent open … productivity employment). Unemployment in the European transition economies is supported by the developed social safety net. In …

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Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing

Kinda, Tidiane - 2009

"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors first propose three measures of firms'...

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Investment climate and international integration

Taye Mengistae - 2004

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Constraints to growth and job creation in low-income commonwealth of independent states countries

Verme, Paolo - 2006

"Despite sustained output growth since 1997, low-income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (CIS-7) have not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless growth." The author addresses the causes of this...

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The investment climate in 16 Indian states

Iarossi, Giuseppe - 2009

"In this paper, the author attempts to identify the characteristics of the business climate in India that can help explain the different performance of individual states in terms of investment and growth. The paper develops a new Investment Climate Index aimed at summarizing the aspects of the...

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Small enterprise growth and the rural investment climate : evidence from Tanzania

Kinda, Tidiane - 2008

agricultural trade. Due to a rapidly growing agricultural sector in recent years, limiting demand-side constraints, rural …

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Measuring the impact of the investment climate on total factor productivity : the cases of China and Brazil

Subramanian, Uma - 2005

"This study measures the impact of investment climate factors on total factor productivity (TFP) of firms in Brazil and China. The analysis is conducted in two steps: first an econometric production function is estimated to produce a measure of TFP at the firm level. In the second step,...

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Productivity, ownership, and the investment climate : international lessons for priorities in Serbia

Goldberg, Itzhak - 2005

"The authors use data on 27,000 firms from 50 countries, half of which are transition economies, together with the case …

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