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Effective development aid: Selectivity, proliferation and fragmentation, and the growth impact of development assistance
Kihara, Takashi - 2012
perspective, some major donors including Japan have been as selective in delivering their aid as some countries well-known for … their selective aid delivery, such as Denmark. Japan has provided higher aid for the countries with better policy and … major donors in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, including Japan, has proliferated less than the aid programs of most other …
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Does gender matter for firm performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2008
Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269049
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Analyzing bottlenecks for institutional development in Central Asia: Is it oil, aid, or geography?
Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer - 2009
The quality of institutions is considerable worse in Central Asia than in other transition countries. Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2005, this paper shows that oil and aid exert a negative influence on institutional development. At the same time,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299507
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Is it really different? Patterns of regionalisation in the post-Soviet Central Asia
Libman, Alexander; Vinokurov, Evgeny - 2010
While the regional economic integration encompassing the former Soviet Union (FSU) transpires to be inefficient, there appears to be a stronger interest in regionalism in smaller groups of more homogenous and geographically connected countries of the region, specifically, Central Asia. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303839
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External drivers of institutional change in Central Asia: Regional integration schemes and the role of Russia and China
Schweickert, Rainer; Melnykovska, Inna; Plamper, Hedwig - 2012
Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our analysis based on the different strategies of Russia...
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Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - 2012
This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289808
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Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - 2012
This paper summarizes the micro - level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291424
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Enhancing science and technology cooperation between the EU and Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia: A critical reflection on the White Paper from a S&T policy perspective
Schuch, Klaus; Bonas, George; Sonnenburg, Jörn - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 1 (2012), pp. 1-14
This article reflects the main findings of the White Paper on opportunities and challenges in view of enhancing the EU cooperation with Eastern Europe, Central Asia and South Caucasus in Science, Research and Innovation, which was released in April 2012, from a science and technology (S&T)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317877
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Handelskosten und Agrarhandel in Zentralasien
Pomfret, Richard - 2014
Zentralasien, abgesehen von einigen Fällen in Kirgisistan, bisher kaum teil an globalen Wertschöpfungsketten. Beispiele aus den …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352780
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Geographies of transition: The political and geographical factors of agrarian change in Tajikistan
Hofman, Irna; Visser, Oane - 2014
After more than two decades of agrarian change in Tajikistan, farming structures seem to crystallise. The first signs towards farm individualisation were observed only around 2000, which were the result of significant pressure from outside, when the post-conflict state was highly susceptible to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427263