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In 2004 the Austrian-based OMV acquired in a privatization process 51% of the Romanian national oil company Petrom. Two … and a half years later this privatization is again in the focus of political attention in Romania. The current government …. The whole issue of privatization is on the agenda. This paper investigates the privatization of Petrom in its historical …
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Abstract In this paper we examine whether foreign-owned firms pay higher wages and have higher levels of employment than domestically-owned firms in a cross-section of sub-Saharan African (SSA) firms using data from 19 SSA countries. We also test for the presence of wage spillovers, examining...
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Relocation is a way of reducing costs, thus increasing competitiveness, by splitting production and services between countries. The main argument kindling the relocation debate suggests that moving abroad generates job losses in the home country, while production and job gains appear only in the...
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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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recorded in Serbia and Montenegro. Russia and Ukraine performed very well, registering significant and balanced growth. The … and institutional adaptations, as well as ongoing gains in labour productivity remain important for maintaining export … acceleration, which spilled over into Ukraine. Growth in the five CEE acceding countries will speed up in 2004, but this is not …
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This study considers the overall implications of changes in employment patterns for the nature of the jobs in which people are employed and for job quality, in particular for the EU member states over the period 1995-2005. Jobs, defined as a particular occupation in a particular industry, are...
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. The factors governing the survival of an agricultural enterprise are not only the supply of fixed inputs, the productivity …
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A simple algebraic model of a property structure leading to Leontief's input-output scheme is developed and used to eliminate indirect ownership relations and evaluate the final distribution of national property among individual owners. A concept of transparency of an ownership structure is...
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economic consequences of a potential territorial break-up of Ukraine? (by Vasily Astrov) Trade integration, vertical …
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Please help us to improve the Statistical Annex by filling in the survey. Graph of the month Ukraine and Russia shares … South Stream pipeline in the present circumstances? (by Rumen Dobrinsky; pp. 2) Bulgaria and the Russia–Ukraine conflict … rising risks for energy supplies and big investment projects (by Rumen Dobrinsky; pp. 3-6) Romania and the Russia–Ukraine …
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