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international community can help by resolving regional conflicts, assisting with trade and economic integration, and offering well …-targeted development assistance. -- Commonwealth of Independent States ; transition ; low income countries ; Southern Caucasus ; Central … Asia ; trade ; investment climate …
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Since 1990, countries in emerging Europe and Central Asia have undergone comprehensive economic transformation. These reforms helped achieve an impressive degree of income convergence toward the levels of the advanced economies, although at the cost of rising inequality and lower life...
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of trade with China became less friendly. Today, GDP in North Korea is reportedly lower than in 1990, notwithstanding a …
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With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
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With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129945
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, welchen Einfluss die politische Orientierung und die in den Regionen vertretenen Machtparteien auf die Zuflüsse von ausländischen Direktinvestitionen haben. Die empirische Untersuchung erfolgt auf regionaler Ebene im...
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Ideally, to reduce energy insecurity, a nation needs to deploy a range of renewable energy (RE) sources. For Central Asian economies, renewable sources appear to be a rational choice; yet, the deployment of renewables is limited and varies substantially by country. Conventional statistics for RE...
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During the last two decades the CIS countries have received very significant amounts of technical assistance from international development organizations and bilateral donors. While this has played a positive and important role in the transformation of these societies, practically all...
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the effects of trade liberalization. In its policy towards neighbors (the European Neighborhood Policy, ENP), the EU puts … trade agreements that the EU envisages concluding with its Eastern neighbors will involve substantial harmonization of … have to focus on the areas that relate to improvement of market access, i.e. removing restrictions to trade, harmonizing …
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This paper analyzes the costs of (partial) institutional harmonization with the EU acquis which countries of the former USSR are expected to conduct under their Partnership and Cooperation Agreements with the EU and European Neighborhood Policy Action Plans. The public sector will have to take...
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