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Business environment and dual-track private sector development : China’s experience in two crucial decades
Long, Xiaoning; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yang, Jin - 2020
A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial … better educated, with more diverse sectoral experience. Market competition increased over time, especially after China …
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How private enterprise organized agricultural markets in Kenya
Jaffee, Steven M. - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138538
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Legal reform for Hungary's private sector
Gray, Cheryl Williamson; Hanson, Rebecca J.; Heller, Michael - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138695
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The legal framework for private sector activity in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
Gray, Cheryl Williamson - 1992
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Public procurement and the private business sector : evidence from firm-level data
Ghossein, Tania; Islam, Asif Mohammed; Saliola, Federica - 2018
The quality of the public procurement system of an economy can have far-reaching effects on the private sector. This paper empirically explores several of these effects using two rich data sets. An overall indicator of public procurement quality is created from the World Bank's Benchmarking...
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Private Chinese investment in Africa : myths and realities
Shen, Xiaofang - 2013
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The transformative effects of privatization in China : a natural experiment based on politician career concern
Huang, Zhangkai; Liu, Jinyu; Ma, Guangrong; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2020
decisions highly contingent on firm characteristics and past performance, complicating the identification of the privatization … requirements in China. This paper finds that Chinese cities whose top officials were older than age 58 were 20 percent less likely … specification (including its random-growth variant). The paper further finds that the privatization effects are significantly larger …
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Learning from power sector reform : the case of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Rana, Anshul; Khanna, Ashish - 2020
The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies, with prices set well below the costs of supply. These subsidies have taken a variety of forms: explicit subsidies in the government budget, implicit subsidies in the...
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Learning from power sector reform experiences : the case of Vietnam
Lee, Alan David; Gerner, Franz - 2020
Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also had some positive impact. By the late 1990s, the...
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Learning from power sector reform : the case of Kenya
Godinho, Catrina; Eberhard, Anton A. - 2019
independent regulation, partial privatization of the generation company (KenGen), and establishment of complementary entities …
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