The Syrian economy is currently undertaking a set of measures to introduce market oriented reforms aimed to change the past system of central planning and to adopt socially oriented rules. The envisaged reforms are supposed to bring efficiency of economic activities, to withdraw the state from...

This paper examines the current state of economic reforms in India and the phenomenon of policy paralysis leading to almost complete lack of progress on reforms. It studies the qualitative aspects of reforms in India over the last couple of decades and explains how these have changed over time....

In the 1990s, Argentina became known as a paradigm of neo-liberal policies. President Carlos Menem was lauded for his ideological zeal in implementing radical economic reforms. Yet, how much of his behavior was motivated by ideology? How much of it was spurred by political necessity? We argue...

The main purpose of the research is to develop a new methodology, that will allow to create an Integral Index of Reforms, quantitatively assess various reforms that have been implemented for 2012-2017 in 66 countries of the world. In the article with the help of the Integral Index of Reforms,...