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Creating capitalism : politics, reforms, and economic performance ; an econometric analysis of six countries from 1989-1999
Wykoff, Frank C. - 2001
Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an econometric model of the interplay between economic reform measures, political decisions and economic performance. Several key hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage...
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The Essence of Economic Reforms in Post-Revolution Georgia : What About the European Choice?
Papava, Vladimer - 2012
Several countries in the post-Soviet world have completed the transition to a European-type market economy and have been admitted to the EU. For others - either partly or totally unsuccessful in transitioning - the question of whether or not this kind of market economy could be built is not even...
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Stolen decades : the unfulfilled expectations of the Belarusian economic miracle
Alachnovič, Aleś; Korosteleva, Julia - 2022
The case of the Belarusian economy has puzzled many academic scholars for years. Belarus has often been referred to as a transition outlier, given its relatively fast recovery in 1996 and spectacular growth prior to the global financial crisis without much transformation of its economy. Three...
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Chapter 15 National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal
Easterly, William - 2005
The new growth literature, using both endogenous growth and neoclassical models, has generated strong claims for the effect of national policies on economic growth. Empirical work on policies and growth has tended to confirm these claims. This paper casts doubt on this claim for strong effects...
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Why has Latin America sped up ahead of the Philippines in economic and political reform?
Alonso-Terme, Rosa - 2015
This paper compares trends in key economic, political and social development outcomes in the Philippines with those of Latin America, particularly since the 1990s. To do so, it uses standard indicators of development, including measures of institutional quality and good governance. The paper...
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Do Structural Reforms Always Succeed? Lessons from Brazil
Arbache, Jorge - 2004
In the last twenty years, Brazil has experienced several attempts of improving sustainable growth through stabilization programs, and more recently, structural reforms in line with the Washington Consensus Agenda. The results, however, have been disappointing, as the per capita output growth has...
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Unser gutes Geld : warum wir den Euro brauchen
Schmieding, Holger - 2012
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Understanding Russian regions’ economic performance during periods of decline and growth—An extreme bound analysis approach
Ahrend, Rüdiger - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 3, pp. 426-443
This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind the widely differing economic growth in Russian regions prior to the recent global financial crisis. Using data of regional growth in 1995–2006 for 77 Russian regions, it examines the growth drivers for the...
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The ups and downs of Turkish growth, 2002-2015 : political dynamics, the European Union and the institutional slide
Acemoglu, Daron; Üçer, Murat - 2015
We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which eat underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but...
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Krisenländer : Relevanz von Strukturreformen für Wachstum und Währungsraum
Matthes, Jürgen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 95 (2015) 2, pp. 106-113
Substantial structural reforms have been taken on labour and product markets by stressed euro area countries since 2008 … structural reforms have reduced the heterogeneity between euro area countries in terms of market rigidities. Moreover, wage and … be detected that wage flexibility has already increased in southern euro area countries. …
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