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Over thirty years have passed since the Bhopal chemical disaster began, and in that time scholars of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have discussed and debated several frameworks for improving corporate response to social and environmental problems. However, CSR discourse rarely delves...
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imply that the CEE countries that have created a strong institutional capacity during transition and post-transition period …
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. However, the analysis of economic development from some of these countries should take into consideration the substantial …
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The current Chinese development model is nearing its limits. The World Bank has cautioned that China could find itself …-largest economy. The chapter lays out two diametrically opposed scenarios for the future development of the Chinese economy. The first …
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whether standing committees of the Communist Party, an institution of collective leadership, matters for economic development … incentives of party leadership affected real estate development at the expense of manufacturing growth in the locality, and that …
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English Abstract: This article maintains that in our second best world, neither corruption nor the informal sector and political instability can be held responsible for the moderate performance of the Ukrainian economy. Corruption in Ukraine appears to act as “grease in the wheels of the...
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's unprecedented development of the private sector. Although with no well-developed financial and legal systems, China witnesses a boom …
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importance of institutions in explaining the variation in economic development and growth across transition economies during the …Drawing on the recent literature on economic institutions and the origins of economic development, the authors offer a … political economy explanation of why institution building has varied so much across transition economies. They identify …
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social networks in job search. In contrast to studies of other transition economies, our results suggest that access to …
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Using a panel of 77 Russian regions from 1990-1998, we investigate the reasons behind largely differing regional growth performance. We consider politico-institutional characteristics, indicators of regional economic reform, and initial conditions (including economic, geographic and structural...
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