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Corruption and Productivity : Firm-Level Evidence from the Beeps Survey
De Rosa, Donato - 2017
corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … grease" hypothesis by investigating whether corruption may increase productivity by helping reduce the time tax on firms … corruption is more prevalent and the legal framework is weaker, bribery is more harmful for firm-level productivity …
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Finding a Balance between Growth and Vulnerability Trade-Offs : Lessons from Emerging Europe and the CIS
Ghosh, Swati - 2017
This paper examines the growth patterns of emerging Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries prior to the global financial crisis. The aim is to draw lessons on what policies can best position these countries going forward to enjoy growth without a buildup in macro and...
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Technology Adoption and the Investment Climate : Firm-Level Evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Correa, Paulo Guilherme - 2016
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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Labor Market Developments During Economic Transition
Rutkowski, Jan - 2016
The paper reviews labor market developments in the transition economies of Europe and Central Asia. It argues that the scarcity of productive job opportunities and the growing labor market segmentation are the two main labor market problems facing the transition economies. In the European...
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Governance and Public Service Delivery in Europe and Central Asia : Unofficial Payments, Utilization and Satisfaction
Diagne, Mame Fatou - 2017
Using data from the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, this paper examines the levels of citizens'satisfaction with public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia and identifies some factors that may help explain variation in utilization and levels of satisfaction with service delivery. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975394
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Tax Administration Practices and Firms? Perceptions of Corruption : Evidence from Europe and Central Asia
Ponomariov, B. - 2018
Two competing conceptualizations of corruption in the literature allow viewing it either as efficient or burdensome …? experience of corruption in tax administration. The findings presented in the paper provide provisional support for the second … line of reasoning, that corruption in taxation is a burden, rather than a type of efficiency. Special emphasis is given to …
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Measuring Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia : A Critique of the Cross-Country Indicators
Knack, Stephen - 2016
This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and …. Data from firm surveys tend to show improvement in most types of administrative corruption, but little change instate … capturein the region. Broader, subjective corruption indicators tend to show somewhat greater improvement in ECA than in non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748012
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Measuring the Middle Class in Kazakhstan : A Subjective Approach
Pittau, M. Grazia - 2018
This paper proposes a model-based approach to estimate income boundaries for identifying the middle class in Kazakhstan over 2003-15. The approach exploits the subjective evaluation of Kazakhstan households about their social status, relating self-declared social class membership to income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912124
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Welfare Dynamics with Synthetic Panels : The Case of the Arab World in Transition
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2018
This paper studies welfare dynamics, especially changes associated with middle-class status in countries in the Middle East and North Africa, before and after the Arab Spring transitions, using objective and subjective welfare measures. Absent panel data, the analysis employs state-of-the-art...
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Where They Live : District-Level Measures of Poverty, Average Consumption, and the Middle Class in Central Asia
Seitz, William Hutchins - 2019
Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the uneven spread of prosperity left many communities struggling to catch up. To support lagging regions within countries, each of the region's five national governments has made...
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