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Countries making the transition to a market economy often experience an increase in corruption along with an increase …
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Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...
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China (where successes in Special Economic Zones facilitated further reform), while this is much less so for Latin American …
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Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation … performance in transition countries than institutionsper se. This suggests that macroeconomic stabilization and peace should be … the main policypriorities in transition, closely followed by institution building. …
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1989 as a regional transition of Central Europe only. This essay does not substitute the stultifying regional perspective … disintegration of its association of party and nomenklatura, and the future of quot;Empire;quot;- The transition from communist party …
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1989 was described as lsquo;annus mirabilis', and its revolutions hailed as one of the great moments in human history. In subsequent years, the re-emergence of war, genocide and terror led to re-interpretation: Europe became a dark continent, the 20th century its darkest hour. Was 1989 merely a...
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One of the consequences of the post-socialist transformation of Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union is the emergence of energy poverty, a condition where households are living in inadequately heated homes. This paper examines the institutional and demographic underpinnings of...
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Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using … formerly planned economies with those in economies outside transition, we document not only the challenges faced by transition …
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to transform their economies. First, data from a sample of twelve transition economies suggest that increased central …. Second, across a larger set of twenty-five transition economies, there is a strong and robust negative relationship between …
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