explanations why unemployment is high during transition in countries of Central and Eastern Europe the role of unemployment and the … fiscal problems due to unemployment is discussed within a model of economies of transition. The model highlights the …

necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …

at the later stage of the transition from polygyny to monogamy, the spread of human capital and the increase of labor …

poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of clientelism on … development outcomes is lacking. In this paper we examine the relationship between political clientelism, public goods provision … political clientelism on development outcomes, with increases in clientelism leading to lower coverage of welfare programmes …

country. In many transition economies TFP is seen to have been negative the last decade of the plan economy and starts … increasing and become positive after a (quite a) few years of transition. Many authors conclude that this is a gain in efficiency … into the development of TFP in Mongolia. Simulations are performed to see what happens with TFP if not the le! ast …

transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman …

The macroeconomic experience has been somewhat ambiguous during the historic experiment of economic transition in the … scale. This paper models the transformation progress which leads to these contradictory outcomes. Before transition …. -- catching-up ; growth ; unemployment ; technological change ; transition economies …

transiting countries, namely Ukraine and Belarus. The development of a new transit corridor through Belarus (the Yamal …