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China Meets the Middle-Income Trap : The Large Potholes in the Road to Catching-Up

Woo, Wing Thye - 2012

We follow Woo (2011) in using the Catch-Up Index (CUI) to define the middle-income trap and identify the countries caught in it. The CUI shows that China became a middle-income country in 2007-2008. We see five major types of middle-income trap that China is vulnerable to (a) fiscal stress from...

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Productivity-wage nexus at the firm-level in Portugal : Decoupling and divergences

Mergulhão, Alexandre - 2021

There is a growing international concern about the slowdown in productivity growth, especially as labor productivity enhancements are important drivers of higher generalised living standards. Using administrative data of firms in Portugal between 2010 and 2016, we analyse the relationships...

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Does "investment climate" affect GDP? : panel data evidence using reduced-form and stochastic frontier analysis

Pal, Debdatta; Mitra, Subrata Kumar; Chatterjee, Somdeep - In: Journal of business research : JBR 138 (2022), pp. 301-310

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Thirty years of economic transition in the former Soviet Union : microeconomic and institutional dimensions

Dąbrowski, Marek - In: Russian journal of economics 9 (2023) 1, pp. 1-32

The post-communist transition in the former Soviet Union (FSU) cannot be considered entirely successful, especially in the political and institutional spheres. Nevertheless, in the economic sphere, the transition process succeeded in rebuilding the foundations of market economies based on...

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Privatisation methods and economic growth in transition economies

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Maw, James W.; Urga, Giovanni - 2004

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A Model of the Macroeconomic Effect of Privatization on Employment in Transition and Developing Countries with an Application to China

Brada, Josef C. - 2014

It is generally agreed that privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) improves economic efficiency, but it is … a theoretical model of the macroeconomic relationships between privatization, efficiency, output, and employment. The … model explains how privatization affects employment in transition and developing economies through different, and often …

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Methods of privatization and economic growth in transition economies

Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor); … - 2006

1990 to 2003. The estimating equation is augmented with country- and time-specific variables for methods of privatization … and other factors potentially relevant to growth in transition economies. It is found that ‘mass privatization’ is … associated with faster growth, but the other privatization methods have no significant impact. The findings suggest that in the …

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Privatisation methods and economic growth in transition economies

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Maw, James W.; Urga, Giovanni - 2004

We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass...

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Fifteen Years of Economic Reform in Russia : What Has Been Achieved? What Remains to Be Done?

Ahrend, Rudiger; Tompson, William - 2006

The paper provides an overview of the course of economic reform and the performance of the Russian economy since the early 1990s and an analysis of the structural reform challenges ahead. It assesses the contribution of institutional and structural reforms to economic performance over the...

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Privatisation Methods and Economic Growth in Transition Economies

Estrin, Saul; Bennett, John; Urga, Giovanni; Maw, James W. - 2004

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