commonly attributed to variation in inherent institutions and reform policy choices. In this paper the link between … institutions, reforms and (labour) productivity growth in agriculture is analysed within an augmented neo-classical growth model … democratic institutions, have positively contributed to the (labour) productivity growth in former communist countries …

just general economic and policy conditions but also a diverse population of economic agents. …

restructuring, ownership,competition, budget constraints and, particularly, institutions in Russian industry, covering theperiod … privatization, rather weak competition, unexpectedly hardbudget constraints, an overwhelmingly negative and relatively positive … assessment of formal andinformal institutions respectively, and largely the same ruling networks as before the start of …