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Post-conflict microfinance: assessment and policy notes for Iraq

Desai, Sameeksha - 2007

This paper explores the potential of microfinance in post-conflict economies, and speci-fically examines policy … considerations for the case of Iraq. It presents important condi-tions of the post-conflict economy, and examines three critical … requirements for suc-cessful microfinance operations, as outlined by the Microenterprises Best Practices Project. Political …

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A comparison and decomposition of reform-era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2009

This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...

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Sources of inflation and output fluctuations in Poland and Hungary: Implications for full membership in the European Union

Dibooglu, Selahattin; Kutan, Ali M. - 2001

This paper examines the sources of fluctuations in inflation and output in two leading transitioneconomy candidates for admission to the European Union (EU), Poland and Hungary. Using a rational expectations, dynamic open economy aggregate supply- aggregate demand model, we consider real oil...

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Regional Issues, Banking Reform and Related Credit Risk in Russia

Astrov, Vasily - 2003

The last decade of the past century has been dominated by growing decentralization in Russia, both in economic and political terms. The major factors driving decentralization were the weakness of the federal government and of President Yeltsin, as well as the poor performance of the federal...

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Reform reversal in former transition economies (FTEs) of the European Union: Areas, circumstances and motivations

Székely, István P.; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2018

The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the Former Transition Economies (FTEs). The desire for a higher standard of living, to be anchored to the West, and to enter the EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very...

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Using Acemoglu and Robinson's concept to assess Leviathans in CECCs in the long term

Matera, Rafał - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 3, pp. 63-89

The main objective of the paper is to use the following terms of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson - Despotic, Real, Paper, Shackled Leviathans - to check and evaluate the state of democracy, governance and social power in Central and Eastern European Countries (CECCs). Six states were included...

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Current Trends in the Russian Financial System

Barisitz, Stephan; Bogetic, Zeljko; Fungacova, Zuzana; … - 2009

The papers in the present SUERF Study is a selection of the papers presented at a SUERF Workshop and Special OeNB East Jour Fixe held at Oesterreichische Nationalbank in Vienna on 23 January 2009. In his opening remarks (chapter 2), Ewald Nowotny, Governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank...

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New patterns of structural change and effects on inclusive development: A case study of South Africa and Brazil

Greenstein, Joshua - 2015

This study explores the question of structural change and inclusive development in South Africa and Brazil. Using Census data from the two countries, the analysis combines a household level multidimensional indicator of well-being with the applications of growth incidence curves and a sectoral...

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Climate change and economic growth prospects for Malawi: An uncertainty approach

Arndt, Channing; Schlosser, Adam; Strzepek, Kenneth; … - 2014

Malawi confronts a development imperative in a context of rising temperatures and deep uncertainty about precipitation trends. We evaluate the implications of climate change for overall growth and development prospects to 2050. We focus on three impact channels: agriculture, road infrastructure,...

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Distributional impacts of the 2008 global food price spike in Vietnam

McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - 2014

Agriculture and food cultivation production remains a key sector in the Vietnamese economy in terms of productive activities, income generation, and national export earnings. Higher world market prices should therefore in principle have a beneficial impact on rural farmers. This is based however...

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