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An Analysis of the Efficiency of Education Spending in Central and Eastern Europe
Aristovnik, Aleksander - International School for Social and Business Studies, …
The paper attempts to measure relative efficiency in utilizing public education expenditures in the new EU member states in comparison to the selected EU (plus Croatia) and OECD countries. As resources allocated to education are significantly limited, a special emphasis should be given to their...
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Factors determining entrepreneurship among societies of Central and Eastern Europe
Korpysa, Jaroslaw - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 33-46
Entrepreneurship is most often treated as a process aimed at starting business activity and determined by a number of … paper is aimed at analysing factors that determine entrepreneurship demonstrated by societies of chosen countries situated … in Central–Eastern Europe on the basis of entrepreneurship model developed by Wennekers, Uhlaner and Thurik as well as …
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Gender Gap in the CIS Region
Rokicka, Magdalena - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2008
The aim of this paper is to examine the issues of gender disparities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region, with a special focus given to countries covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The analysis is conducted in several dimensions: labour participation, economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633101
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Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism
Beirne, John; Campos, Nauro F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education production function approach and new data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666644
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After the Financial Crisis: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Shelburne, Robert; Trentini, Claudia - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2010
The Pan-European Region made significant progress from 1995 to 2007 in improving the economic, social, environmental and health indicators incorporated into the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, given the huge set-backs associated with the transition recession in the early 1990s and...
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Economic Education and Government Reform in the Republic of Georgia
MacPhee, Craig R. - In: Journal of Economic Education 32 (2001) 1, pp. 68-77
The author describes public education through the media and training for government officials and for journalists undertaken as part of economic reform efforts in the Republic of Georgia of the former Soviet Union. The article concludes with a discussion of the necessary conditions for success...
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The Curse of Natural Resources in the Transition Econonmies of the Former East
Kronenberg, Tobias - EconWPA - 2003
The curse of natural resources is a well-documented phenomenon in developing countries. Economies that are richly endowed with natural resources tend to grow slowly. Among the transition economies of the former “Eastern Bloc”, a similar pattern can be observed. This paper shows that a large...
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Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism
Beirne, John; Campos, Nauro F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education production function approach and new data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566574
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Middle East Transitions: A Long, Hard Road
Yusuf, Shahid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Since the onset of the Arab Spring, economic uncertainty in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (Arab Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined business confidence, affected tourist arrivals, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142081
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Facilitating youth entrepreneurship.
Haftendorn, Klaus; Salzano, Carmela - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003
-employment and entrepreneurship as career options for young people entering the labour market. Provides examples of programmes in … integrating entrepreneurship education into the classroom. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965695