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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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. New descriptive evidence provided in this paper suggests that euro-area countries have made relatively good progress in …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The year 2003 has witnessed several major reform policy initiatives in Germany intended to contribute to a solution to Germany's high unemployment problem and to improve the longrun sustainability of its social welfare policies. These economic reforms are discussed within a larger macroeconomic...
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