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Jemio, Luis Carlos; Candia, Fernando; Evia, Jose Luis - 2009

This paper analyzes reforms and counter-reforms in Bolivia in recent decades and their effects on the policymaking process (PMP) and productivity. Bolivia's PMP has shifted from a formal representative democracy to a "participative and direct type of democracy" where street protest and other...

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Reforms and Counter-Reforms in Bolivia

Jemio, Luis Carlos; Candia, Fernando; Evia, Jose Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper analyzes reforms and counter-reforms in Bolivia in recent decades and their effects on the policymaking process (PMP) and productivity. Bolivia’s PMP has shifted from a formal representative democracy to a “participative and direct type of democracy” where street protest and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554076

Update on the Venezuelan Economy

Weisbrot, Mark; Ray, Rebecca - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

This paper examines recent economic data, including the most recent data released the third week of August 2010, in an attempt to evaluate the Venezuelan economy's prospects in the foreseeable future. It finds that the Venezuelan economy, which went into recession in the first quarter of 2009...

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Economic policy and institutional change: a contex-specific model for explaining the economic reforms failure in 1970´s Colombia

Rojas, Angela Milena - UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA - CIE - 2006

This paper develops a context-specific model (Greif, 1997) to analyze the case of failed market-oriented reform in Colombia during 1974-78. The methodology keeps the contextual specificity at a manageable level, which is no more than the institutional structure under consideration, while it...

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The Venezuelan Economy in the Chávez Years

Weisbrot, Mark; Sandoval, Luis - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

This paper is an update of CEPR’s July 2007 overview of the Venezuelan economy, and includes the latest available data (at the time of publication) for growth, employment, poverty, budget information, and other data. The paper notes continued progress in economic growth, poverty reduction,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489818

Reforms and Counter-Reforms in Bolivia

Jemio, Luis Carlos; Candia, Fernando; Evia, José Luis - 2009

This paper analyzes reforms and counter-reforms in Bolivia in recent decades and their effects on the policymaking process (PMP) and productivity. Bolivia s PMP has shifted from a formal representative democracy to a participative and direct type of democracy where street protest and other...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247929

Il trasporto pubblico locale e la concorrenza. Cambiare paradigma per salvare il servizio: il caso ligure.

Francesco, Gastaldi; Lucia, Quaglino; Carlo, Stagnaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Local Public Transportation (LPT) in Italy is usually managed through inhouse companies owned by local governments. In the past few years a wave of reforms has invested the sector, with some regions trying to increase the companies' size. This paper provides an extensive review of the...

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Postal Reform

Geddes, Rick - In: Econ Journal Watch 1 (2004) 1, pp. 61-81

. The vast majority advocate some combination of privatization and elimination or relaxation of the delivery monopoly. Those …

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Gas industry reforms and consumers' prices in the European Union

Florio, M.; Brau, R.; Doronzo, R. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2008

This paper offers an empirical analysis of the impact of reforms in the natural gas industry on consumer prices across the EU-15 area. After briefly reviewing the most recent reforms, we study the relationship between regulatory indicators and price dynamics by means of panel data econometrics....

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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …

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