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Publisher : World Bank Publications
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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Circumstance and Choice written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Alice Galenson
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821359341
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Economies in Transition written by Alice Galenson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin American Development Forum promotes debate and disseminates knowledge and analysis on economic and social development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Institutional Sponsors of this series are the World Bank, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). The transition economies of the Europe and Central Asia Region faced unprecedented political, economic, and social change after me break-up of the Soviet Union. With assistance from the World Bank and other donors, many countries quickly accomplished a number of reforms, but progress in others has been slower. Much has been achieved--"the private share of GDP in the transition countries is nearly 70 percent, and 8 countries have joined the EU--"but much remains to be completed.
Author : R. M. Auty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199246882
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Resource Abundance and Economic Development written by R. M. Auty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s the per capita incomes of the resource-poor countries have grown significantly faster than those of the resource-abundant countries. In fact, in recent years economic growth has been inversely proportional to the share of natural resource rents in GDP, so that the small mineral-driven economies have performed least well and the oil-driven economies worst of all. Yet the mineral-driven resource-rich economies have high growth potential because the mineral exportsboost their capacity to invest and to import."Resource Abundance and Economic Development" explains the disappointing performance of resource-abundant countries by extending the growth accounting framework to include natural and social capital. The resulting synthesis identifies two contrasting development trajectories: the competitive industrialization of the resource-poor countries and the staple trap of many resource-abundant countries. The resource-poor countries are less prone to policy failure than the resource-abundant countriesbecause social pressures force the political state to align its interests with the majority poor and follow relatively prudent policies. Resource-abundant countries are more likely to engender political states in which vested interests vie to capture resource surpluses (rents) at the expense of policycoherence. A longer dependence on primary product exports also delays industrialization, heightens income inequality, and retards skill accumulation. Fears of 'Dutch disease' encourage efforts to force industrialization through trade policy to protect infant industry. The resulting slow-maturing manufacturing sector demands transfers from the primary sector that outstrip the natural resource rents and sap the competitiveness of the economy.The chapters in this collection draw upon historical analysis and models to show that a growth collapse is not the inevitable outcome of resource abundance and that policy counts. Malaysia, a rare example of successful resource-abundant development, is contrasted with Ghana, Bolivia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Argentina, which all experienced a growth collapse. The book also explores policies for reviving collapsed economies with reference to Costa Rica, South Africa, Russia and Central Asia. Itdemonstrates the importance of initial conditions to successful economic reform.
Author : Zenonas Norkus
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155053502
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book On Baltic Slovenia and Adriatic Lithuania written by Zenonas Norkus and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an innovatory internationally comparative causal analysis of the variation in political and economic outcomes of post-communist transformations after the first decade, using multi-value qualitative comparative analysis and TOSMANA software. This analysis includes a critical revision of received dichotomies (e.g. on gradualism versus "shock therapy") about post-communist transformation, a discussion of the counterfactual scripts of post-communist transformation, and contributes to current debates on the varieties of post-communist capitalism. This conceptual framework is applied in case studies of the transformation in the Baltic States, with special consideration given to the possibility of alternatives to the Lithuanian way and the challenges of populism in this country's politics. Book jacket.
Author : Mr.Oleh Havrylyshyn
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 9781589060135
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book A Decade of Transition written by Mr.Oleh Havrylyshyn and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2001-04-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reviews the experience of 25 non-Asian transition economies 10 years into their transformation to market economies. The volume is based on an IMF conference held in February 1999 in Washington, D.C., to take stock of the achievements and the challenges of transition in the context of three questions: How far has transition progressed ineach country? What factors explain the differences in the progress made? And what remains to be done?
Author : Thorsten Beck
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies written by Thorsten Beck and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "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 dependence on natural resources and the historical experience of these countries during socialism as major determinants of institution building during transition by influencing the political structure and process during the initial years. Their empirical analysis shows that countries that are more reliant on natural resources and spent a longer time under socialist governments are more likely to see former communists remain in power and to start the transition process with less open political systems, with negative repercussions for the development of market-compatible institutions. Using natural resource reliance and the years under socialism to extract the exogenous component of institution building, the authors also show the importance of institutions in explaining the variation in economic development and growth across transition economies during the first decade of transition."--World Bank web site.
Author : Herman Willem Hoen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781782543206
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Good Governance in Central and Eastern Europe written by Herman Willem Hoen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Undeniably Good Governance in Central and Eastern Europe provides many insights in the political economy of institutional reform and constitutes an important contribution to the growing literature on "second-generation" reforms.' - Carlos Santiso, Democratization The implementation of a democratic order embedded in a market economy environment has proved immensely difficult. Furthermore, this process is subject to tremendous variety within Central and Eastern Europe. Ten years after the collapse of communism it was apparent that only Poland and Slovenia surpassed their 1989 levels of GDP. This book scrutinises the arrangements to enforce good governance in this area both by means of external help and domestic political leadership. From the popular assumption that transformation is a collective good, it follows that the problem of free-riding has to be faced. Consequently there is a danger that transformation may never be completed. This book empirically tests the relationship between economic performance and good governance focusing upon voluntary coercion as a means to prevent free-riding behaviour. The author examines the role of international organisations and discusses elite formation as an important element of good governance - something often ignored in the economic analysis of economic performance.
Author : Carol S. Leonard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491385
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Agrarian Reform in Russia written by Carol S. Leonard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in the early 1990s. It shows a pattern emerging from a political imperative in imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet regimes, and it describes how these reforms were justified in the name of the national interest during severe crises - rapid inflation, military defeat, mass strikes, rural unrest, and/or political turmoil. It looks at the consequences of adversity in the economic environment for rural behavior after reform and at long-run trends. It has chapters on property rights, rural organization, and technological change. It provides a new database for measuring agricultural productivity from 1861 to 1913 and updates these estimates to the present. This book is a study of the policies aimed at reorganizing rural production and their effectiveness in transforming institutions.
Author : Michael McFaul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521834841
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)
Download or read book After the Collapse of Communism written by Michael McFaul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Leszek Balcerowicz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464803269
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Puzzles of Economic Growth written by Leszek Balcerowicz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By comparing countries like Venezuela and Chile, China and India, Dominican Republic and Haiti, and others, the book tries to answer the questions of which institutions and policies are crucial for stable long term economic growth.
Author : Christopher A. Hartwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000876519
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Kazakhstan: Snow Leopard at the Crossroads written by Christopher A. Hartwell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the experience of Kazakhstan’s transition over the past 30 years, explaining the political and economic performance of the country since the collapse of the USSR, through the country’s institutions, policy choices, and external environment. In an exploration of more than 1,000 years of institutional development, the chapters analyse and assess the development of political arrangements and governance, and economic institutions, from pre-Russian colonization through to the Soviet experiment, and then take a magnifying glass to developments in a post-Soviet, independent Kazakhstan. Using a broad range of sources and data across disciplines, this book is the first to explicitly survey Kazakhstan’s transition as a function of its history, its people, and its institutions. Breaking new ground in institutional economics, it provides readers with a comprehensive examination of the history and development of Kazakhstan, and points to where it may be heading in the 21st century. The subject matter is accessible to a broad academic audience: to scholars in political science, economics, and the history of Central Asia and Russia, as well as to those with an interest in general transition economics.
Author : Fang Cai
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900418421X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Transforming the Chinese Economy written by Fang Cai and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming the Chinese Economy is a translated collection of articles providing a look at how scholars in China have been assessing their country's recent economic history. This volume, as well as the others in the SSRC series, provides Western scholars with an accessible, English-language look at the state of current Chinese scholarship, and as such, does not simply provide information for the direct study of economic issues, but also for meta-level analysis of the interplay of China's policy, scholarship, and economy. Specific topics include banking and finance, inequality of growth, and women's role in the workforce.
Author : Johan F.M. Swinnen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199288917
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book From Marx and Mao to the Market written by Johan F.M. Swinnen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the first effort to analyze the economics and politics of agricultural reforms by comparing the reform processes, their causes and their effects across this vast region. The authors draw on a vast set of studies and new data, which compare reforms and economic impacts in more than 25 countries. A series of conclusions and implications on the role of economic reforms in growth, and the importance of initial conditions and political constraints in explaining the choices that were made and their effects are discussed throughout the book."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : S. Estrin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230590322
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Transition and Beyond written by S. Estrin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk management, the optimal transition path, and globalization.
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451944942
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Russian Federation written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Selected Issues paper analyzes Russia's growth performance, the recovery in output, factors behind the post-crisis recovery, the role of the ruble depreciation and higher international energy prices, and labor market trends. The paper describes the developments in the government budget since the August 1998 crisis, determinants of revenue performance, recent tax reform, and the outstanding structural issues in the fiscal sector. It also provides a statistical appendix and annexes regarding the changes in the exchange system and the external trade regime, 1999–2000.
