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It has recently become customary to argue that Russian economic transformation since 1991 has failed because of bad policy advice and mistaken policy choices. Though Russia's performance leaves much to be desired, such criticisms are based on a failure to analyse the real choices available to...
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Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...
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China's reform worked and produced one of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy … in the world in the past twenty-two years. That China has managed to grow so rapidly despite the absence of many … initial conditions and to function as stepping stones in the transition toward the goal. Underlying China's reform is a series …
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The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its … discovery of new institutional forms (e.g. dual track pricing, SOE contracts, and fiscal contracts) that are optimal for China … advanced member of WTO. If the experimentalist interpretation of China''s phenomenal growth is correct, then WTO membership is …
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The paper provides an overview of the course of economic reform and the performance of the Russian economy since the early 1990s and an analysis of the structural reform challenges ahead. It assesses the contribution of institutional and structural reforms to economic performance over the...
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Our main interest is the impact of the choice of the speed of economic reform on economic growth. We estimate a system of 3 equations where economic growth, economic reform and FDI are jointly determined. We find that new reforms affect economic growth negatively but attract FDI, whereas the...
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Since the beginning of transition in 1990 from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy, the performance of Poland's economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. In our opinion it is not specific reforms that can explain this performance but the radical (“big...
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economy. We use data on diffusion indices collected by the People's Bank of China for forecasting industrial production …
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