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Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269020
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Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2008
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288041
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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001
This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262559
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Russia's Financial Markets Boom, Crisis and Recovery 1995-2001: Lessons for Emerging Markets Investors
Süppel, Ralph - 2003
From 1995 to 2001 Russia witnessed an asset market boom, a deep financial crisis, and a surprisingly forceful recovery …. An event study of this episode provides important insights for Emerging Market investment and Russia's medium … conditions. Together with persistent commitment towards international integration this heralds a long-term convergence of Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689911
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The political economy of India's fiscal federal system and its reform
Rao, M. Govinda; Singh, Nirvikar - 2006
This article examines recent and potential reforms in India's fiscal federal system. We summarize key federal institutions in India, including tax and expenditure assignments, and mechanisms for Center-state transfers. We discuss the institutional process by which reforms can and do take place,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322734
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Angola's incomplete transition
Aguilar, Renato - 2001
Angola’s difficulties in achieving macro-economic stability and economic liberalization have serious implications for private-sector development. Hyperinflation, and frequent policy reversal, constrain and distort investment in both the informal and formal parts of the private sector. But...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333031
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Vietnam as a role model for development
Thoburn, John - 2009
Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid integration into the world economy, with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273512
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Privatization and economic strategy in Mozambique
Castel-Branco, Carlos; Cramer, Christopher; Hailu, Degol - 2001
Privatization, together with liberalization and deregulation, constituted the core of Mozambique's economic transition. Privatization in Mozambique has taken place on an unusually large scale in comparison with the rest of Africa. Privatization interacted with military demobilization and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279150
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Institutional quality, reforms and integration in the Maghreb
Addison, Tony; Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2003
Using panel data this paper examines the effects of institutions on the success of reforms and integration in the Maghreb. Institutional quality measures are developed using fuzzy-set based transformations of civil liberties and political rights. We posit that these transformations are quite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279197
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Governance and policy in Africa
Hamdok, Abdalla - 2001
The recent emphasis on governance in Africa is unique in that it was initiated by donors and not by domestic leaders under pressure from their own constituencies. Thus while many countries have embraced the market economy and liberalized their policies, issues related to political participation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279327