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This paper focuses on the role of ‘institutions’ in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income...
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This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400868
Development and problems of modernization of peripheral societies of European civilization are considered in the paper. It is argued that recent enlargement of the European Union has left three Eastern European countries – Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine in a specific zone that can be defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968884
This paper focuses on the role of "institutions" in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320747
We analyse the impact of social capital on the willingness to migrate in 28 post-communist and five western European comparator countries using the Life in Transition Survey. We find substantially lower levels of professional social capital among the older cohorts in post-communist than in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788047
We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as 'informal family insurance'. We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...
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foreign influences and education. – Internet ; transition economies ; institutions ; communication technology …
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Many Central and Eastern European countries invigorated by EU enlargement became important locations for offshored service centres. Building on the region's nearshoring advantages such as geographical-cultural proximity and on its multilingual graduate supply, CEE is likely to utilise more value...
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, return on investments often lag behind normal profit expectations. Co-investment, like mobile network sharing can promote … of this paper to assess the Czech and Hungarian mobile network sharing agreements in CEE that both show higher degree of … finding is that, although live network sharing agreements have been opposed by competition regulators, main anticompetitive …
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The international intellectual property regime has been heralded by its supporters as the key that would open the door to technological advancement in developing countries. So far, in Central and Eastern Europe it has failed to deliver on this promise, especially with respect to the software...
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