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- Current Condition and Perspectives of Reforming the System of Executive Power in the Republic of Uzbekistan
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October 8, 2008 12:58
The report includes review of the current condition of public and economic administration, analysis of legislative-normative basis, analysis of the structure and functions of the central executive authorities, features of sector administration formed in Uzbekistan during the years of independence.
- Corruption in Serbia Five Years Later
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March 3, 2008 13:58
This study contains an analysis of the changes in the corruption level and effects of government policies during the five years of transition in Serbia, i.e. after the October changes.
- State capture as the cause of widespread corruption in Serbia
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March 3, 2008 13:56
In the post-Milosevic period, Serbia has passed many laws and new institutions have been established to fight corruption. The results have been disappointing as the laws are improperly implemented, institutions are weak and controlling mechanisms almost non-existent…
- Economic Inequality and Corruption
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March 3, 2008 13:55
A review of recent contributions to the explorations of the relations between economic inequality and corruption demonstrates that corruption as a factor of inequality has been poorly theoretically explained, although some empirical evidence has been tracked down…
- Corruption in Serbia
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March 3, 2008 13:40
The 207 page document firstly defines what corruption is, what are its basic causes and what are the mechanisms used to perpetuate it. Giving and taking of bribes is a centuries old tradition in Serbian society and punitive action is taken against the giver rather the receiver, contrary to the public perception of how it should be!
- Problems of good governance in extractive industries
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March 3, 2008 11:17
This study argues that Azerbaijan can avoid its oil revenues having an adverse economic effect and for the income to be distributed in a fair manner by ensuring the good governance of these funds.
- Local Government in Moldova
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January 18, 2008 16:55
This paper considers legal and constitutional basis, local politics and administration of entities in Moldova. Also, further steps in the transition process of the country are offered.
- Competition, Corporate Governance, and regulation in Central Asia - Uzbekistan's structural reform challenges
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January 2, 2008 15:52
This paper is based on fieldwork in Uzbekistan and outlines recommendations for developing a structural reform program, which will improve Uzbekistan's competitive business environment. The paper identifies six main policy challenges.
- Industrial growth and the quality of institutions : what do (transition) economies have to gain from the Rule of Law?
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January 2, 2008 15:40
The authors empirically test the link between industrial growth and indicators of institutional quality. They find significant evidence that institutional quality affects inindustrial growth in 27 Asian and Latin American countries. Their results suggest that the development of the legal and regulatory framework works its way to industrial growth through both investment and total factor productivity.
- What drives corporate governance reform? firm-level evidence from Eastern Europe
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November 23, 2007 14:52
The authors study differences in the use of two corporate governance provisions - cumulative voting and proxy by mail voting - in a sample of 224 firms located in four Eastern European countries. The report finds a significant relationship between ownership structure, and the use of corporate governance provisions.
- Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia : a critique of the cross-country indicators
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November 23, 2007 14:46
This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) based on data from several sources that are both widely used and cover most or all countries in the region.
- Corruption and decentralized public governance
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November 23, 2007 14:36
This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralized local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is because localization helps to break the monopoly of power at the national level by bringing decisionmaking closer to people.
- Moldova - Public Economic Management Review
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November 23, 2007 14:26
Unfavorable initial conditions, and extreme vulnerability to external shocks, as experienced by Moldova's economic transition, culminated in the 1998 regional financial crisis, which fostered the need for radical fiscal retrenchment, namely, reductions in social sectors expenditures. Currently, and despite a seemingly reasonable, attainable growth, the challenge for the Government is to improve basic outcomes in social sectors, and address inequities in access to basic social services.
- Belarus - Strengthening public resource management
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November 23, 2007 14:25
This report, the first Public Expenditure Review of Belarus, will remain focused on broad systemic questions. A number of the problems emphasized in the subsequent chapters fall into four broad categories. These categories are all closely interrelated: The complicated array of extrabudgetary and quasi-fiscal sources of state finance imposes substantial losses on the economy.
- Why do firms hide? Bribes and unofficial activity after Communism
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November 23, 2007 11:57
Our survey of private manufacturing firms finds the size of hidden “unofficial” activity to be much larger in Russia and Ukraine than in Poland, the Slovak Republic and Romania. A comparison of crosscountry averages shows that managers in Russia and Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less faith in the court system. Our firm-level regressions for the three east European countries find that bureaucratic corruption is significantly associated with hiding output.
- Intervention, corruption and capture: the nexus between enterprises and the state
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May 16, 2007 14:41
We study the nexus between enterprises and the state in transition countries, using new enterprise survey data. We examine the quality of governance, state intervention in enterprise decision-making, state benefits to firms and corruption payments.
- Labour market states, mobility and entrepreneurship in transition economies
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May 16, 2007 14:41
This paper examines the different strategies adopted by individuals in transition economies to cope with labour market restructuring. Using micro-data from seven countries at different stages of transition, we focus on “active” coping strategies, in particular mobility and entrepreneurship. Our results show that there is significant mobility across labour market states in most countries, but little inflow into entrepreneurship from unemployment or inactivity. Entrepreneurship is a high-reward strategy and is more significant in the advanced transition countries of central Europe, where entrepreneurs tend to be male, middle-aged, and more educated than other members of the labour force. However, in the CIS, there is little difference in the demographic profile of entrepreneurs compared to the rest of the labour force.
- Anti-corruption programmes in post-communist transition countries and changes in the business environment, 1999-2002
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper analyses the anti-corruption activities of 24 transition countries in the period 1999-2002. These activities are divided into omnibus anti-corruption programmes, legislative reform aimed at tackling corruption, and adherence to international anti-corruption conventions. The paper presents a new measure for determining the extent of anti-corruption activity undertaken in these three categories during 1999-2002. Using the results of a large survey of firms across the region, the paper shows that countries with low levels of administrative corruption were more likely to adopt intensive anti-corruption programmes than countries with high levels of administrative corruption, independent of the level of state capture.
- Should market liberalisation precede democracy? Causal relations between political preferences and development
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper looks at the relationship between market development and democracy. We ask if demand for democracy emerges only after a certain degree of market development has been reached and, conversely, whether democratisation is likely to hinder acceptance of market liberalisation. Our study, which is based on the 2006 Life in Transition Survey, finds that democracy enhances support for market development, but that economic liberalisation does not clearly increase support for democracy.
- CIS: the emerging post-soviet petrostates
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This article considers democracy issues in three energy-rich former Soviet Union countries: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia
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