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As East You Go, the More They Grow: Transition Economies in a New Setting

Gligorov, Vladimir; Pöschl, Josef; Richter, Sandor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2004

Belarus, Russia and Ukraine as well as in China. For each country, it provides a forecast relating to GDP growth, inflation … positive growth figures recorded by the global economy as a whole. Central and Eastern Europe, together with Russia, Ukraine … instability. Finally, despite high GDP growth, structural distortions still characterize both Russia and Ukraine, whose economies …

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Has Transition Improved Well-Being?

Gruen, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2012

In this paper we examine trends in economic well-being in transition countries from 1988-2008 to determine whether the populations of transition countries are better off today than prior to the transition process. To do this, we examine economic performance, inequality-adjusted well-being...

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Социальный мониторинг "Инноченти",2009 год:Благополучие ребенка:переломный момент.Динамика проблем в Центральной и Восточной Европе и СНГ...

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre - 2009

По прошествии почти двух десятилетий переходного периода регион ЦВЕ/СНГ по-прежнему находится в состоянии перемен. После продолжительного периода устойчивого...

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Innocenti Social Monitor 2009. Child Well-being at a Crossroads: Evolving challenges in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. MONEE project - 2009

The evolving and diverging challenges for the well-being of children after two decades of transition are examined. Following a long period of sustained economic growth and gradual improvements in living standards, the global economic crisis is now threatening to reverse some of the recent...

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Liberalization, democracy and economic performance during transition

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2000

This paper analyzes the inter-relations between economic and political processes during transition in 25 post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The main findings are the following: First, economic liberalization generally has positive effect on growth...

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How important are institutions for growth in transition countries?

Moers, Luc - 1999

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...

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Managing capital flows in transition economies with a case-study of Central and Eastern Europe

Drábek, Zdeněk; Griffith-Jones, Stephany - 1998 - Manuscript date: February, 1998

Management of capital inflows has unexpectedly become a major challenge in transition economies. These countries were expected to have an insatiable demand for foreign capital, and an excess demand for capital inflows was, therefore, predicted by most observers. Foreign investors are also known...

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Zum Stand von Transformations- und EU-Beitrittsprozess in Mittel- und Osteuropa : eine komparative Analyse

Lackenbauer, Jörg; Wenzel, Heinz-Dieter - 2001

Eine präzise Darstellung des seit 1989 andauernden Übergangs von der Plan- zur Marktwirtschaft (sowie von der kommunistischen Diktatur zu Demokratien westlicher Prägung) in Mittel- und Osteuropa würde den Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit sprengen, die nicht den eigentlichen...

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The factors behind CO2 emission reduction in transition economies

Zugravu, Natalia; Millock, Katrin; Duchêne, Gérard - 2008

The Central and Eastern European countries significantly reduced their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 1995 and 2003. Was this emission reduction just the fortuitous result of the major economic transformation undergone by countries in the transition? Or is it rather a result of more...

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Lessons from the transition economies : putting the success stories of the postcommunist world into a broader perspective

Popov, Vladimir V. - 2009

did not undermine significantly the institutional capacity of the state in China, but in Russia and other CIS states it …

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