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Agriculture plays an important part in Kazakhstanś self-image, and continues to be a significant economic sector, employing about a third of the workforce. In the two decades since independence, agriculture has experienced dramatic swings in performance and in public policy. During the 1990s...
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Using a unique dataset for 14 transition economies, we propose a new measure for individual evaluations of transitional reforms, which we use to study, for the first time, the evolution of support for economic and political reforms from 1991 to 2004. We show that support for economic changes has...
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Originally the Laffer Curve was formulated in a macroeconomic context, for which reason it is not applicable to individual taxes, but rather to a certain average aggregate tax. The 'corrections' to the Laffer Curve are based on a factor of time. High importance is the question – in which...
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policy advice and mistaken policy choices. Though Russia's performance leaves much to be desired, such criticisms are based … particular the views presented by Jospeh Stiglitz, shows that the Chinese reform path was not available to Russia, that mass … and necessity in policy making more generally. The final section of the paper characterises Russia as a case of weak state …
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This paper unfolds an analytical perspective on the evolution of property rights in Russia from Tsarist times until …
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This article links Russians' individual experiences during the late-Gorbachev and early-Yeltsin years to the beliefs those same individuals espoused in the Putin era, over a decade later. Drawing on questions, some of which are retrospective, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey,...
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administration in Russia. It also describes changes in local fiscal management. The Yaroslavl region faces a set of budgetary …
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We review the role of economic theory in shaping the process of legal change in Russia during the two transitions it … dependence and history are frequently invoked to explain the limited development of the rule of law in Russia during the 1990s …
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promote rule of law in a rent-seeking society. Taking Russia and Ukraine between 2000 and 2012 as its empirical focus, the …
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