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Democracy and reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271245
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"Health is gold": Institutional structures and the realities of health access in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Kotsila, Panagiota - 2012
services, (iii) rurality and poverty are closely connected to each other and to restricted health access, either due to limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327397
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Power utility re-regulation in East European and CIS transformation countries (1990 - 1999): An institutional interpretation
von Hirschhausen, Christian R.; Opitz, Petra - 2001
This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of systemic transformation (1990-1999); in particular, it explores reasons why early attempts to introduce competition-oriented reform models have not succeeded. We discuss advantages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300565
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Analysing agricultural productivity growth in a framework of institutional quality
Nomman Ahmed, Mirza; Maas, Sarah; Schmitz, P. Michael - 2010
This paper addresses the question whether the institutional environment of transition countries in Eastern Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307568
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The mortality crisis in transition economies
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
of how the transition from a low to a high socio-economic level can generate huge social costs if it is not actively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573688
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Power utility re-regulation in East European and CIS transformation countries (1990-1999) : an institutional interpretation
von Hirschhausen, Christian R.; Opitz, Petra - 2001
This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of systemic transformation (1990-1999); in particular, it explores reasons why early attempts to introduce competition-oriented reform models have not succeeded. We discuss advantages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274266
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Efficiency Analysis of East European Electricity Distribution in Transition: Legacy of the Past?
Cullmann, Astrid; Apfelbeck, Jürgen; von Hirschhausen, … - 2006
transition countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). We compare the relative technical efficiency of East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274272
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The East European financial crisis
Åslund, Anders - 2009
This paper discusses the global financial crisis of 2008/9 in thirteen countries, the ten new EU members that previously were communist and the three countries of Western former Soviet Union. Their problems were excessive current account deficits and private foreign debt, currency mismatches,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430838
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Rural Poverty in Transition Countries
Macours, Karen; Swinnen, Johan - 2006
-urban poverty differences in 23 transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the firmer Soviet Union. The paper presents a …This paper uses new poverty data based on household level surveys to analyze changes in rural poverty and rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313332
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households … with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296046