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"/agricultural/informal to "modern"/industrial/formal sectors. Such transitions are usually accompanied by a transition in the economic …
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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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the rising relative wage of skilled workers in the manufacturing sector in three Central and Eastern European transition …
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structures in transition. The mutual benefit of low real interest rates, to both equity and economic development is a major … European integration process allowed most of the transition economies to aim for the best of both worlds equity and economic …
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The process of European Union (EU) integration proceeds from economic to political integration. The economic integration itself proceeds from trade to financial to complete market integration. The sustainability of the process depends on some causal relation existing between economic and...
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This paper discusses the transition agenda and provides the key economic characteristics of selected Middle East and … to identify some regularities in transition processes and to draw policy lessons for MENA countries. Among the key … overcome, yet the transition will not require a radical overhaul of the existing system. The sine qua non condition is to …
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The patterns of Central and East European countries' (CEECs) development in the course of transition and following EU ….) studied in the panel-econometrics models of transition, the main macroeconomic tendencies characterising transition (and the …, likely to explode sooner or later. Unfortunately, transition came much too late. Had the transition happened in the 1960s, or …
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The Danish "Klima 2020" plan sets an ambitious target for the complete phasing-out of fossil fuels by 2050. The Danish energy sector currently accounts for 40% of national CO2 emissions. Based on an extended Farrell input distance function that accounts for CO2 as an undesirable output, we...
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This paper looks at how the Russian economy has developed under the leadership of Putin and how it spills over to its neighbours in the CIS region. It stresses the importance of international oil prices as a determinant of policies and outcomes in Russia and highlights how this has impacted...
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contribution policies in the Netherlands. We then calculate the gross aggregate transition effect of abolishing the uniform policy …
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