The characteristic of Vietnam’s development after the Doi Moi has been triple successes: a high economic growth rate, significant poverty reduction, and relatively little inequality. Using disaggregated provincial-level data of Vietnam from 2002 to 2010, this study verifies the relationship...

The paper analyses the 20-year experience with transition in the SEE countries in a comparative framework, illustrating how these countries encountered difficulties in its implementation, despite having some of the best starting conditions in 1989 to implement a swift transition to a market...

In 1949, Soviet Union and some of its satellites created Comecon with the announced goal to facilitate economic cooperation between the socialist countries. The inefficiency of socialist systems affected the performances of Comecon members. However, the analysis of economic development from some...

The paper deals with transformation of institutions and the new paradigm in economics, evolutionary economic theory. First mainstream approaches to explain transformation (here called "transition") are criticised, then the conception of evolutionary economics is defined. Transformation - like...

In this paper we examined the impact of the liberalization of financial sector on growth in small open economy of Ghana using time series data from 1970 to 2007. Using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) modelling approach we find long-run positive and significant impact of financial...