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The Transition in Georgia: From collapse to optimism

Gogishvili, Teimuraz; Gogodze, Joseph; Tsakadze, Amiran - 1996

This working paper documents the economic and social crises in Georgia during the 1990s, their structural causes and the survival strategies adopted by the Georgian population, the vast majority of whom became impoverished, with large families particularly vulnerable. It also examines the hopes...

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Economic Transition in the Baltics: Independence, market reforms and child well-being in Lithuania

Lazutka, Romas; Sniukstiene, Zita - 1995

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Sharing High Growth across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 7 (2015) 2, pp. 1-39

We analyze intergenerational redistribution in emerging economies with the aid of an overlapping generations model with endogenous labor supply. Growth is initially high but declines over time. A version of the model calibrated to China is used to analyze the welfare effects of alternative...

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Who you gonna call? Oligarchic clans as a bottom-up force of neighborhood europeanization in Ukraine

Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer - 2008

This paper argues that, in the absence of a strong membership incentive within the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), a top-down institutional convergence of CIS countries towards European standards – i.e. democracy and market economy – is unlikely to be successful. However, due to...

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Who you gonna call? : oligarchic clans as a bottom-up force of neighborhood europeanization in Ukraine

Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer - 2008

This paper argues that, in the absence of a strong membership incentive within the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), a top-down institutional convergence of CIS countries towards European standards - i.e. democracy and market economy - is unlikely to be successful. However, due to enlargement...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460019

Institutional Determinants of Investment in Transition Economies

Dang, Vinh - 2012

and transition progress on investment rates of transition economies since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Political … the Index of Economic Freedom compiled by the Heritage Foundation; and transition progress is documented by the European … Bank for Reconstruction and Development's transition index. Panel data estimation techniques are applied and the results …

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Vom Camarade zum Monsieur : Strukturanpassung und Demokratisierung in Benin (From Camarade to Monsieur: Structural Adjustment and Democratization in Benin Republic)

Kohnert, Dirk; Preuss, Hans-Joachim A. - 2018

The process of political and economic liberalisation in Benin is regarded as a model for the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa. Benin made history by becoming the first African country to overthrow a military dictator by democratic means. The civilian coup d'etat cleared the way for economic recovery,...

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The impact of foreign affairs on the political and social transition in Guinea-Bissau

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

The present transition in Guinea-Bissau is often described as an internal affair, triggered off by “bad government”, i … dependent. This article advocates a more balanced problem analysis: Whereas the impact of internal forces on the transition is …

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Technology adoption and the investment climate : firm-level evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Corrêa, Paulo Henrique da Rocha da Rocha - 2008

"The international diffusion of technology presents an opportunity for developing economies distant from the world technological frontier to reduce their income gap relative to advanced economies. It is therefore crucial to understand why, when faced with similar technological alternatives...

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Technology Adoption and the Investment Climate : Firm-Level Evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Correa, Paulo G.; Fernandes, Ana M.; Uregian, Chris J. - 2012

The international diffusion of technology presents an opportunity for developing economies distant from the world technological frontier to reduce their income gap relative to advanced economies. It is therefore crucial to understand why, when faced with similar technological alternatives...

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