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Montenegro : The Challenges of a Newborn State

Drakic, Maja - 2012

After the peaceful passing of a referendum that dissolved the Union of Serbia and Montenegro in May 2006, people flocked to the streets to celebrate the establishment of Montenegro as a newly independent republic of about 630,000 people. While still part of the union with Serbia, Montenegro had...

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The Death Toll from Natural Disasters : The Role of Income, Geography and Institutions

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2003

Using a new data set on annual deaths from natural disasters in 48 nations from 1980 to 1999, this paper tests several hypotheses concerning disaster mitigation. While richer nations do not experience fewer natural disaster shocks than poorer nations, richer nations do suffer less death from...

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Continuity and Change in Italian Corporate Governance : The Institutional Stability of One Variety of Capitalism

Pagano, Ugo - 2003

For a long time family capitalism has been considered to be one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Italian economy. In Italy also large business organizations rely very often on this form of corporate governance. This paper examines both the actual institutional shocks and the missed...

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Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development

Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - 2021

This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and … preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is … European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, in 28 post-Transition countries. Our identification …

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Job Growth in Early Transition : Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - 2021

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...

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Institutional Framework and Poverty : A Transition Economy Perspective

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2021

This paper focuses on the role of "institutions" in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty...

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How severe will the growth slowdown in China caused by the structural change be? : an evaluation based on experiences from Japan and South Korea

Murach, Michael; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

investment- and manufacturing-led growth model towards a consumption- and service-led model is associated with decreasing growth …

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Towards a sustainable social model: Implications for the post-2015 agenda

Islam, Nazrul - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2014

challenges India is facing and the policies and reforms that need to be implement to achieve sustainable development. …

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Technological diversification in China: Based on Chinese patent analysis during 1986-2011

Ning, Lutao; Prevezer, Martha; Wang, Yuandi - Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR), School of … - 2014

This paper confirms the positive relationship between national technological size and technological diversification (following Cantwell, Vertova 2004 for major developed economies) for China over three periods: from its premarket status 1986-1990, through its rapid marketization of 1991-2000, to...

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Possibility of a Middle Income Trap in China: Assessment in Terms of the Literature on Innovation, Big Business and Inequality

Lee, Keun; Li, Shi - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 9 (2014) 3, pp. 370-397

This paper discusses the possibility of China falling into the so-called middle income trap in terms of three checkpoints: innovation capability, world-class big businesses, and inequality. Based on these criteria, our conclusions are as follows: First, China has increasingly become innovative...

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