This paper deals with the issue of drug trafficking in Tajikistan, which is a serious socioeconomic obstacle to the country´s economic growth. The author analyses the development and the reasons for the current situation since Tajikistan´s independency in 1991, arguing that the unsatisfactory...

The aim of this paper is to describe the current situation of the least developed countries (LDCs). After briefly explaining their historical development, this paper presents the current definition criteria for LDCs as well as their up-to-date list. The position of the LDCs within the...

Czech Abstract: Cílem tohoto článku je prezentovat a analyzovat některé přístupy k fenoménu korupce. První kapitola zmiňuje implicitní charakteristiky korupce z definic, které mohou být nalezeny ve veřejně přístupných zdrojích. Druhá a třetí kapitola tyto charakteristiky...

The economic theory of the last decades deals with how certain models of institutions and incentives could improve the coordination of individual actions in society. Setting rules regulating relationships between economic agents is considered as the key requirement of such coordination....

Czech Abstract: Cílem kvalifikační práce je vysvětlení řešení problému korupce z pohledu dvou ekonomických teorií a nalezení řešení problému korupce, které by bylo platné pro obě vysvětlené ekonomické teorie. V metodologické části je argumentováno ve prospěch...

The paper presents results of World Bank survey in 2005 undertaken within the project Doing Business, with special regard to the Czech Republic position. Doing business conditions are assessed particularly according to the regulation burden and its impacts on entrepreneurship. The structure...

An easy and popular method for measuring the size of the underground economy is to use macro-data such as money demand or electricity demand to infer what the legitimate economy needs, and then to attribute the remaining consumption to the underground economy. Such inferences rely on the...

Joint-stock companies are among the most fundamental components of a market economy. “Voucher privatization” in the Czech Republic saw an abrupt mushrooming of joint-stock companies where none had appeared for over a generation. This occurred in an environment lacking in guiding...

The paper demonstrates how survey methods and retrospective questions can be put to effective use in the study of shadow-economy dynamics; specifically, the evolution of tax evasion in the Czech Republic. The authors measure the average individual's transition between the shadow and official...