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

Correa, Paulo Guilherme - 2010

Survey data for 7,000 firms in 28 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are used to examine the correlates of technology adoption proxied by ISO certification and web use. Complementary inputs such as skilled labor, managerial capacity, research and development, finance, and good...

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

Correa, Paulo Guilherme - 2016

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. - 2010

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Openness and insolation : the trade performance of the former Soviet Central Asian countries

Mazhikeyev, Arman; Edwards, Terence Huw; Rizov, Marian - In: International business review : the official journal of … 24 (2015) 6, pp. 935-947

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Investment Climate in Bangladesh : Performance and Possibilities

Abdin, MD. Joynal - 2015

Bangladesh achieved lower-middle income country’s status from the World Bank in July 2015. It’s GNI per capita raised into USD 1314 in 2014-15 FY from USD 1184 and USD 1054 in 2012-13 and 2013-14 Fiscal Years respectively. The government of Bangladesh declared Vision 2021 to be a higher...

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Structural reform and productivity growth in emerging Europe and Central Asia

Georgiev, Yordan; Nagy-Mohacsi, Piroska; Plekhanov, … - 2017

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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Structural origins of debt-sustainability in mature and transition economies: Domar, Balassa–Samuelson and Maastricht

Borgersen, Trond-Arne; King, Roswitha M. - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 30 (2014) C, pp. 101-119

, measured as the limiting value of the debt-to-GDP ratio, of transition economies exceeds that of mature market economies. This …, among transition economies those with relatively higher structural flexibility can sustain relatively higher debt … between two categories of transition economies: Those that could and should and those that could but should not exploit their …

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Impact of the transition on the TFP in Croatia

Raguž, Irena; Družić, Ivo; Tica, Josip - Ekonomski Fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu - 2012

In this paper we investigate the impact transition had on the total factor productivity in Croatia. The analyzed data … contribution of TFP to GDP growth changed with the beginning of transition. In addition, we conduct structural break analysis …, taking into an account, not only transition process but the pretransition period as well. Results suggest that transition had …

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Defying the odds: initial conditions, reforms and growth in the first decade of transition

Falcetti, Elisabetta; Raiser, Martin; Sanfey, Peter - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - 2000

stabilisation and structural reforms – as determinants of growth in transition economies during the first 10 years. The paper has …

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Post-Communist Recessions Re-examined

Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for Comparative Economics, School of Slavonic … - 2005

negative impact. Initial trade dependence made recessions more serious. The results are discussed with reference to the …

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