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Russian Manufacturing and the Threat of ‘Dutch Disease': A Comparison of Competitiveness Developments in Russian and Ukrainian Industry

Ahrend, Rudiger; Rosa, Donato de; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with broadly similar institutions, industrial structures and levels of … transition.<P>Le secteur manufacturier russe et la menace du « syndrome néerlandais » Comparaison du développement de la …’industrie manufacturière en Russie serait affectée par le ‘syndrome néerlandais’. L’Ukraine et la Russie ont commencé leur transition vers l …

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Realising the Oil Supply Potential of the CIS: The Impact of Institutions and Policies

Ahrend, Rudiger; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

This paper provides an overview of the political economy of oil in the CIS. It briefly situates the region's oil sector potential in the global context, before analysing the structural features of the oil sectors by country. It examines the ways in which CIS oil industries have been organised...

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Understanding Russian Regions' Economic Performance during Periods of Decline and Growth: An Extreme-bound Analysis Approach

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind widely differing economic growth in Russian regions. Using data of 77 regions for 1993-2004, it separately examines the growth drivers for the phase of economic decline up to 1998, and for the period of strong...

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Accounting for Russia's Post-Crisis Growth

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

This paper provides an in depth analysis of Russia’s recent growth, with a view to understanding the prospects for its continuation. It examines in detail the main drivers of growth, as well as the main developments and policies that have been underlying it. A key finding is that the role of...

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How to Sustain Growth in a Resource Based Economy?: The Main Concepts and their Application to the Russian Case

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

In recent years economists have come to see rich natural resource endowments as a ?curse? or ?precious bane? that inevitably undermines development and slows economic growth. Resource-based development undeniably involves important risks. Nonetheless, the resource curse - if it exists - is at...

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Regulatory Reforms to Unlock Long–Term Growth in Turkey

Gönenç, Rauf; Rawdanowicz, Łukasz - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

In the 2000s, Turkey has enjoyed rapid catching–up. This was possible despite the adverse business environment, as the semi–formal and informal economy had a significant contribution to the expansion of the private sector. Productivity growth was strong, but labour utilisation remained very...

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The Political Economy of Climate Change Mitigation Policies: How to Build a Constituency to Address Global Warming?

Serres, Alain de; Llewellyn, John; Llewellyn, Preston - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

Developments over the past few years have shown that reforms to address climate change are no less difficult to implement than reforms in other areas, even if the objective of limiting global warming is broadly accepted. In the case of global public goods such as the climate, the political...

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The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation

Price, Robert W.R. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

This paper explores the political economy of fiscal adjustment. It begins with an examination of the evidence for, and sources of, ‘deficit bias’, including political and governance factors, public attitudes, the role of financial markets and imprecision about which debt targets should be...

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Advancing Structural Reforms in OECD Countries: Lessons from Twenty Case Studies

Tompson, William; Dang, Thai-Thanh - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

This paper presents in summary form the findings that emerge from a study of 20 structural reform episodes in 10 OECD countries. The study’s principal messages may be summarised as follows. First, it pays to have an electoral mandate for reform. Secondly, major reforms should be accompanied by...

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The Effects of EMU on Structural Reforms in Labour and Product Markets

Duval, Romain; Elmeskov, Jørgen - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

Structural reforms in labour and product markets are required in a number of euro-area countries. A question in this regard, which is the topic of this paper, is whether belonging to the euro area tends to help or hinder structural reform. The paper first reviews the theoretical arguments and...

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