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THE FAILURE OF INDUSTRIALISM IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA
Olimpiu, Parean Mihai - - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 1, pp. 345-351
country shows that the authorities had in mind a self-sufficient industrialization by providing greater care than conventional … industrial policy in Romania.Certainly that at the beginning of massive industrialization results seemed to be at least some … colapsed because of his desire to increase in the country\'s industrialization. Basically he showen the limits. This paper …
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The international diffusion of new technologies: a multi-technology analysis of latecomer advantage and global economic integration
Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - EconWPA - 2004
The diffusion of modern, efficient technology has far-reaching consequences for the geography of economic activity, inequality and environmental quality. This article examines two popular yet highly controversial claims about the conditions most favorable to the rapid spread of new technology....
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Privatizing Profits of Bulgaria's State Enterprises, TRANSITION newsletter about transition economies, The World Bank, Vol. 6, No.3, March 1995.
Bogetic, Zeljko; Hillman, Arye - EconWPA - 2005
The note documents and discusses the modalities and consequences of the phenomenon of siphoning profits of state enterprises for private uses by state enteprise managers and insiders in Bulgaria during the period of early transition.
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Literature review and model development
Jackson, Tim; Drake, Ben; Victor, Peter; Kratena, Kurt; … - WWWforEurope - 2014
This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...
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Bolivia: The Economy During the Morales Administration
Weisbrot, Mark; Johnston, Jake; Ray, Rebecca - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
This paper examines the Bolivian economy since President Evo Morales took office in 2006. It finds that Bolivia’s economic growth in the last four years has been higher than at any time in the last 30 years, averaging 4.9 percent annually since the current administration took office in 2006....
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Productivity in Australia's wholesale and retail trade
Johnston, Alan; Porter, Darrell; Cobbold, Trevor; … - EconWPA - 2001
Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...
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Challenges in Evaluating Development Effectiveness
White, Howard - EconWPA - 2005
Evaluation quality is a function of methodological and data inputs. This paper argues that there has been inadequate investment in methodology, often resulting in low quality evaluation outputs. With an increased focus on results, evaluation needs to deliver credible information on the role of...
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The Soviet Price Determination, An Econometric Study
Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005
This paper attempts estimation of the model of the Soviet price determination. Model consists of price equations for five sectors of the Soviet economy, and it is intended to be a part of a larger econometric model of the Soviet economy. Four different cost-plus price formulae were estimated....
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Knowledge Sources of Innovation in a Small, Open Economy: The Case of Singapore
Wong, Poh Kam; Ho, Yuen Ping - EconWPA - 2005
By tracing the flows of patent citation of prior patents and scientific journal articles, we investigate the sources of knowledge for innovation output in Singapore, a small, highly open economy that has traditionally been significantly dependent on foreign multinational corporations (MNCs). We...
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Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish program aid
White, Howard - EconWPA - 2005
How does aid affect recipient country economic performance? This study looks at programme aid (import support, budget support and debt relief) in nine countries (Bangladesh, Cape Verde, Ghana, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia), showing how aid has had an impact on both...
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