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Economic and Institutional Reforms in French-Speaking West Africa: Impact on Efficiency and Growth
Danielson, Anders - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2001
, despite far-reaching reforms, including privatization, liberalization, and deep regional integration. Social indicators … differ from that in other parts of Africa, despite more centralized institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645164
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Explaining Episodes of Growth Accelerations, Decelerations, and Collapses in Western Africa
Salinas, Gonzalo; Imam, Patrick A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
The growth literature has had problems explaining the "sub-Saharan African growth dummy" in cross-country regressions. Instead of taking the usual approach of focusing on long-run growth and assuming that sub-Saharan countries have homogenous parameters in growth regressions, we concentrate our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605430
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Product Market Reforms and Incentives to Innovate in Sweden
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729195
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Economic reforms: Policy and institutions some lessons from Indian reforms
Virmani, Arvind - Indian Council for Research on International Economic … - 2004
change and explores the links between policy and institutions in the context of economic reforms. Thus successful … introduction of new policies may require new institutions and the degree of success in changing policies may depend on the degree … to which existing institutions are modified. The literature on Institutions and Development has dealt with questions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537287
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Privatization of Corporations in Uzbekistan in Comparison with Transition Economies of Central and Eastern Europe
Kakhkharov, Jakhongir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The demise of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR signaled a rush to privatization in Central and Eastern …-owned-and-operated enterprises to private owners and/or managers in order to create a viable private sector, capital markets and other institutions … and processes, which describe a free market capitalist system. However, the pace of privatization has not been the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272685
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Lebanon; Use of Fund Resources: Request for Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance: Staff Report; and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The Lebanese authorities have requested follow-up Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance with an access of 12.5 percent of quota to support their economic program. The 2006 war with Israel led to a political stalemate and repeated outbreaks of domestic fighting until the formation of a national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244535
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Republic of Serbia; Request for Stand-by Arrangement: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Republic of Serbia.
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Serbia’s transition to a more sustainable growth model remains incomplete and fragile. A precautionary Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) has been requested to insure against external risks and to provide a policy anchor. The program represents a prudent step in the present uncertain global and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245396
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Georgia; Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Requests for Waiver of Performance Criterion and Conversion of an Indica...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This paper discusses key findings of the Second Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) for Georgia. All quantitative performance criteria (PCs) for end-December 2004 were met, but the indicative target on reserve money growth was exceeded, mainly because of large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768417
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The Sources of Economic Growth in Ukraine after 1998 Currency Crisis and the Country's Prospects
DABROWSKI, Marek; Jakubiak, Malgorzata - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2003
The purpose of this study is to analyze the sources of economic growth in Ukraine, which has been observed from the second half of 1999. In addition, we intend to answer the question what is the sustainability of this growth, i.e. putting in other words, what are the chances and conditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529169
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Republic of Moldova; Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper examines the Republic of Moldova’s Fourth Review under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion. Investors have been attracted by Moldova’s low costs, and export prospects have improved with the resumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243006