social indicators, such as GDP growth, labour market outcomes, and poverty and inequality, for the period since the fall of … find that FDI inflows have had, in general, a positive effect on economic growth in CESEE, and that this effect has been … with 0.19 pp higher GDP growth. For FDI from Germany and Austria, this effect is five times higher - FDI inflows of 1 pp of …

Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) over their first ten years of freedom. We draw three conclusions from … relatively popular, Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria, reform is slower, more problematic, and aimed toward a welfare state not US …Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an …

We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income … distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path … inequality. Our results show significantly higher levels of income inequality in regions with a higher presence of oligarchs. …