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Efficiency Issues in Transitional Economies

Author : Jenifer Piesse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429857233
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Efficiency Issues in Transitional Economies written by Jenifer Piesse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999, this text uses a number of approaches to measure the performance of firms in the transition economies of Central Eastern Europe during the early stages of reform. There is considerable controversy about the level of productivity in this period, as is evident by contradictory evidence quoted in the literature and a high degree of inconsistency in published national statistics. Indeed, the disagreement extends to the measurement approach and the results for this group of countries. Particularly difficult is any analysis at the firm level, as data is inconsistent, incomplete and based on now out-dated accounting systems. The information used in this book is a panel data set of 64 items collected from 1000 firms across 25 industry sectors in Hungary. Productive efficiency is measured and the reasons for poor performance are discussed. It was found that industrial sectors differ in their average performance levels and in the factors most likely to account for this. Finally, recommendations are developed to help to reverse the decline in productivity.

Efficiency Issues in Transitional Economies

Author : Jenifer Piesse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429857241
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Efficiency Issues in Transitional Economies written by Jenifer Piesse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999, this text uses a number of approaches to measure the performance of firms in the transition economies of Central Eastern Europe during the early stages of reform. There is considerable controversy about the level of productivity in this period, as is evident by contradictory evidence quoted in the literature and a high degree of inconsistency in published national statistics. Indeed, the disagreement extends to the measurement approach and the results for this group of countries. Particularly difficult is any analysis at the firm level, as data is inconsistent, incomplete and based on now out-dated accounting systems. The information used in this book is a panel data set of 64 items collected from 1000 firms across 25 industry sectors in Hungary. Productive efficiency is measured and the reasons for poor performance are discussed. It was found that industrial sectors differ in their average performance levels and in the factors most likely to account for this. Finally, recommendations are developed to help to reverse the decline in productivity.

Social Sector Issues in Transitional Economies of Asia

Author : Douglas H. Brooks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Social Sector Issues in Transitional Economies of Asia written by Douglas H. Brooks and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers broad guidelines for leaders, public and private, charged with making the crucial decisions that will affect the daily lives of a large share of the world's population.

Policy Analysis for Effective Development

Author : Kristin Morse
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
ISBN 13 : 9788179930830
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Policy Analysis for Effective Development by : Kristin Morse

Download or read book Policy Analysis for Effective Development written by Kristin Morse and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical text provides analytic tools and real-world examples to equip both students and professionals with the skills they need to develop and implement effective public policies.Focussing on transition economies, Morse and Struyk concentrate on the day-to-day tasks involved in tackling social and economic policy issues. They thoroughly cover the practicalities of activities such as allocating resources, balancing political and technical factors, introducing competition into the public sector, weighing costs and benefits, monitoring and evaluating programs, and even presenting policy recommendations, as well as the specifics of the actual decision-making process. Exercises and case studies allow readers to apply lessons learned to real situations.

Business Strategies in Transition Economies

Author : Mike W. Peng
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761916017
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Business Strategies in Transition Economies written by Mike W. Peng and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work is a practical examination of fundamental strategic issues confronted by firms competing in newly opened markets. It covers emerging markets in East Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and the new states of the former Soviet Union.

Infrastructure Performance and Reform in Developing and Transition Economies

Author : Lourdes Trujillo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infrastructure Performance and Reform in Developing and Transition Economies written by Lourdes Trujillo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Estache, Perelman, and Trujillo review about 80 studies on electricity and gas, water and sanitation, and rail and ports (with a footnote on telecommunications) in developing countries. The main policy lesson is that there is a difference in the relevance of ownership for efficiency between utilities and transport in developing countries. In transport, private operators have tended to perform better than public operators. For utilities, ownership often does not matter as much as sometimes argued. Most cross-country studies find no statistically significant difference in efficiency scores between public and private providers. As for the country-specific studies, some do find differences in performance over time but these differences tend to matter much less than a large number of other variables. Across sectors, private operators functioning in a competitive environment or regulated under price caps or hybrid regulatory regimes tend to catch up best practice faster than public operators. There is a very strong case to push regulators in developing and transition economies toward a more systematic reliance on yardstick competition in a sector in which residual monopoly powers tend to be common. This paper--a product of the Office of the Vice President, Infrastructure Network--is part of a larger effort in the network to document the state of the sector"--World Bank web site.

Marketing Issues in Transitional Economies

Author : Rajeev Batra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461550092
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Marketing Issues in Transitional Economies written by Rajeev Batra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the markets in transitional economies open and grow, major challenges and opportunities arise for multinational firms entering these markets, local firms facing these new competitors, and policymakers seeking to increase the ability of all firms to compete fairly and efficiently. Yet despite the important questions transition economies pose for policymakers and companies seeking to enter and compete in these new markets, there has been a relative absence of systematic research on these concerns. This book seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by offering a pioneering and comprehensive examination of issues that have developed as markets in transitional economies become more deregulated and open. The countries discussed include China, the Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa and South Korea. The topics covered are divided into five main sections, and the individual chapters are written by some of the world's leading academic experts on these issues. Most of the authors draw from freshly-collected data in new studies of consumers and/or firms in transitional economies. After an opening section which discusses the marketing issues and challenges multinational and local firms face in transitional economies, the next three sections offer detailed treatments of changing consumer behavior, measuring and improving the marketing orientation of firms, and implementing and managing distribution channels. The fifth and final section is devoted to firm strategies and tactics, examined variously from the perspective of multinational firms entering these new markets, from the viewpoint of existing local firms facing new competitive challenges from global entrants, and from the perspective of local firms seeking to establish themselves in foreign markets where they have not previously competed. Most of the individual chapters are revised versions of papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the William Davidson Institute, which focuses on research related to emerging and transitional economies, and have not previously appeared in published form. Thus, the book is a unique collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the various aspects of marketing in transitional economies. It will prove valuable reading to academics, policymakers, and international business strategists.

Investing in Resource Efficiency

Author : Florian Flachenecker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319788661
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Investing in Resource Efficiency written by Florian Flachenecker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of resource efficiency in reconciling environmental and economic considerations. It also discusses the critical role of resource efficiency investments in mitigating climate change and enabling sustainable development. Featuring expert insights from academia, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, this book provides a policy oriented guide, reference, and toolbox for unlocking the potential of resource efficiency. To this end, it identifies practical measures for overcoming barriers and creating smart incentives for leveraging resource efficiency investments. Overall, this book brings together evidence to develop innovative ideas and strategies for improving the efficient use of resources and advancing clean and sustainable development. "This book is an important and timely contribution", Angel Gurria, Secretary General, OECD

The Political Economy of the Transition Process in Eastern Europe

Author : Laszlo Somogyi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781782543947
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of the Transition Process in Eastern Europe written by Laszlo Somogyi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This well-produced book is a worthy contribution to the burgeoning literature on the transition. The editor provides a useful introduction.' - Ian Jeffries, The Economic Journal '. . . provides a useful and readable introduction to many of the most important issues in the "transition process".' - Hugo Radice, Economics of Transition Why has industrial output fallen in Eastern Europe and is further decline inevitable? What lessons can be learned from the stablilization programmes of the first two years of the post-communist era? Should the transitional economies privatize quickly and where do they find the missing institutions essential to the proper working of capitalism? In seeking answers to these and other questions, The Political Economy of the Transition Process in Eastern Europe analyses the difficulties faced by nations attempting to move from a planned to a market economy with special emphasis on issues of macroeconomic stabilization and institutional change.

Transition and Economics

Author : Gérard Roland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262681483
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Transition and Economics written by Gérard Roland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition from socialism to capitalism in former socialist economies has transformed the economic structure. This book provides an overview of research on the issues raised by the shift from collective to private ownership.

Institutional Barriers in the Transition to Market

Author : C. Hartwell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113732371X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Barriers in the Transition to Market written by C. Hartwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the institutional developments in 28 transition economies over the past two decades and concludes that, contrary to popular belief, institutions were not neglected; while personalities mattered as much as policies for outcomes, getting the basic institutions right was the most important aspect of a successful transition.

The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe

Author : Jan Svejnar
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483289230
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe written by Jan Svejnar and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe is the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the Czech Republic's economic transition after the fall of the Communist bloc. Edited by Jan Svejnar,a principal architect of the Czech economic transformation and Economic Advisor to President Vaclav Havel, the book poses important questions about the Republic and its partners in Central and Eastern Europe. The thirty-five essayists describe the country's macroeconomic performance; its development of capital markets; the structure and performance of its industries; its unemployment, household behavior, and income distribution; and the environmental and health issues it faces. In this in-depth, comparative analysis of the Czech Republic's economic transition, an international team of thirty-five economists examine the Republic and its partners in Central and Eastern Europe. Important questions and issues permeate the essays. For example, prior to 1939 the Czech Republic possessed the most advanced economy in the region; is it capable of reestablishing its dominance? Relative to its neighbors, the Republic ranks especially high on some transition-related performance indicators but low on others. What economic effects are related to the 1993 dissolution of the Czech and Slovak governments? And what can be learned by comparing the economic outcomes of two countries that shared legal and institutional frameworks? Data describe the country's macroeconomic performance; its development of capital markets; the structure and performance of its industries; its unemployment, household behavior, and income distribution; and the environmental and health issues facing it. Its most important contributions are its clarifications of the transition process. The authors included in Transforming Czechoslovakia combine the best available data and techniques of economic analysis to assess the replacement of the inefficient but internally consistent central planning system with a more efficient market system. These authors, among whom are central European economic analysts, senior U.S. economists, and Czechoslovakian professors and economic researchers, discuss the country's macroeconomic performance; its development of capital markets; the structure and performance of its industries; its unemployment, household behavior, and income distribution; and the environmental and health issues facing it. The essays vary between presentations of history and policy and technical examinations of data. Together they offer the most comprehensive and detailed assessment of the country's economic transformation in print. This book is important because its essayists compile results and reach conclusions that are broad and credible. The empirical data were gathered on the ground and have been subjected to advanced methodologies, including game theory, industrial organization, and Granger-Sims causality.

Institutions, Transition Economies, And Economic Development

Author : Tim Yeager
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429968310
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Institutions, Transition Economies, And Economic Development written by Tim Yeager and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some nations wealthy while others are desperately poor? Despite the rapid advancement of technology and the free flow of information provided by computers, many poor nations are falling further behind the wealthy nations of the world. Why is it that these poorer nations cannot catch up? Until recently, economic theory provided limited help in answering these questions. But the New Institutional Economics, a rapidly growing body of economic theory, may provide the answers. Timothy Yeager's Institutions, Transition Economies, and Economic Development clearly explains the New Institutional Economics, and applies its tenets to the transition economies of Poland and Russia. Readers will gain a perspective on transition and developing economies that has never been explored before in a single book.

Fiscal Decentralization and Intergovernmental Relations in Transition Economies

Author : Richard Miller Bird
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiscal Decentralization and Intergovernmental Relations in Transition Economies written by Richard Miller Bird and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing a well-functioning intergovernmenal fiscal system is essential to the success of all the transitional economies' major reform goals: privatization, macroeconomic stability, more efficient performance and economic growth, and an adequate social safety net.

Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies

Author : World Bank
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : The World Bank
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies written by World Bank and published by Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. This book was released on 1995 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transition Economics

Author : Peter Luke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136909095
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Transition Economics written by Peter Luke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems. Given the passage of time, Transition Economics: Two Decades On reviews and accounts for the outcomes in the so-called transition economies and, from an academic perspective, takes the reader through developments and issues in the twenty years of transition from plan to market. Treating its subject matter thematically, the book incorporates much of the transition economics literature and evidence that have evolved over the past two decades. In particular, the authors focus on the most important aspects of economic transition, including: The initial conditions at the outset of transition Paradigms and patterns of transition The main transition policies and economic reforms The performance of transition countries and firms The lessons from transition The textbook covers a wide range of both contemporary microeconomic and macroeconomic issues, in over thirty ex-socialist European and Asian countries, including Russia and China. Transition Economics: Two Decades On is more than just a book about a particular part of the world or the transformation that was experienced at a particular time in history. The authors believe that the study of the economics of transition gives the reader an insight into theories, policies, reforms, legacies, institutions, processes and lessons that have application and relevance, beyond the specific transition from plan to market, to other parts of the world and to other times in history.

Management in Transitional Economies

Author : Vincent Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0203398114
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Management in Transitional Economies written by Vincent Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research, this comparative study examines the past, present and future of management in the transitional economies of East and Central Europe, Russia, the People's Republic of China, and Vietnam. It discusses the nature of the transition process, identifying different transition paths, highlighting common features and outlining useful theoretical approaches. Each chapter covers a wide range of aspects of management in the countries covered, including details of the historical and cultural background, the transition process, and both external and internal factors, and the macro and micro situation. Its multidisciplinary approach, makes this book suitable for both a practitioner and an academic readership