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international community can help by resolving regional conflicts, assisting with trade and economic integration, and offering well …-targeted development assistance. -- Commonwealth of Independent States ; transition ; low income countries ; Southern Caucasus ; Central … Asia ; trade ; investment climate …
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international community can help by resolving regional conflicts, assisting with trade and economic integration, and offering well …
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subsequent revival in the CARs, which have yet to be adequately analyzed in the literature on transition. The paper relates …
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Since 1990, countries in emerging Europe and Central Asia have undergone comprehensive economic transformation. These reforms helped achieve an impressive degree of income convergence toward the levels of the advanced economies, although at the cost of rising inequality and lower life...
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of trade with China became less friendly. Today, GDP in North Korea is reportedly lower than in 1990, notwithstanding a …
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The protracted recession in the euro area will continue to be a drag on the economic growth of most CESEE countries in 2013. By and large, those countries are small open economies held hostage to the excessive fiscal austerity pursued in the euro area and the sluggish progress on the part of its...
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In 1973, Augusto Pinochet led a US-backed coup against Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected president. Pinochet's supporters argued that the coup was the only way to save the country amid statism and socioeconomic breakdown. But how much was Allende to blame for the crisis that...
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The Orange Revolution in the fall of 2004 built great hopes for a better future for Ukraine. However, three years later those hopes have been replaced by disappointment, frustration and confusion. Although progress in the areas of political freedom, pluralism, civil rights and freedom in the...
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An Optimum Currency Area (OCA) is characterized by a group of countries for which forgoing the exchange rate mechanism, as an instrument of correcting asymmetric shocks, is compensated by other economic policy instruments. In this paper, we address the issue whether the CEEC are a part of a...
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With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
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