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Purpose – The main objective of this paper is to critically examine the effects of the ongoing reform process on the … overall functioning of Serbia's banking system. It is essential that this reform process bears fruit by developing a sound … field research. The interviews were aimed at capturing the attitudes of bank managers regarding the country's banking reform …
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
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This paper studies how the effect of trade openness on economic growth depends on complementary reforms that help a country take advantage of international competition. This issue is illustrated with a simple Harris-Todaro type of model where output gains after trade liberalization depend on the...
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shocks tend to produce growth accelerations that eventually fizzle out, while economic reform is a statistically significant … growth accelerations are unrelated to standard determinants and most instances of economic reform do not produce growth …
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This paper presents a coherent and systematic analysis of the collapse and subsequent revival of the Central Asian Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and subsequent revival in the CARs which have been inadequately...
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This article is presented before the 19th Annual Meeting of the Philippine Economic Society at the Manila Hotel on December 11, 1982. Examination of the Philippine strategy for development during the 1970s has indicated a success that is relatively short-lived; hence, it is necessary to emphasize...
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arise circumstances where the initial success of reform might result in it running into a political impasse. We suggest that … the key might lie in the e?ect that the reform process has on the balance of political power. In particular, if initially … opinion may turn against reform. Thus, in some sense, an initially successful reform may well end up sowing the seeds of its …
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The recent debate between Dabrowski, Gomulka and Rostowski, (2001) and Stiglitz and Ellerman (2001) as to key fators determining the success or failure of policies of liberalisation and privatization, illustrates the need for a concise theoretical foundation as to how, when and where policies...
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gradualist reform packages for economies in transition. …
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