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- Filling the gap in urban transport: Private sector participation in transition countries
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper reviews private sector participation (PSP) in urban transport in central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It documents how the private sector is helping to address service gaps in poorer countries and identifies a strong negative relationship between GDP per capita and the degree of PSP. It also shows that decisions to involve the private sector in public services are driven by resource constraints and the general reform process.
- The energy intensity of transition countries
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May 16, 2007 14:41
This paper decomposes energy data and uses panel data to identify the main factors driving improvements in energy intensity. It shows that energy prices and progress in enterprise restructuring are the two most important drivers for more efficient energy use.
- Barter and non-monetary transactions in transition economies: Evidence from a cross-country survey
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November 23, 2007 11:48
This paper reports the findings of a survey of more than 3,000 firms in 20 transition countries. It shows that barter and other non-monetary transactions (including the use of bills of exchange, debt swaps, barter chains, and the redemption of debt in goods) are an important phenomenon in Russia and Ukraine. Contrary to what is commonly believed, they are not negligible in central and eastern Europe.
- 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.
- The transition in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: some strategic lessons from the experience of 25 countries over six years
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November 23, 2007 15:53
The purpose of this paper is to draw strategic lessons from the experience of the economic transition. It will be based on the experience since 1990 of the 25 countries of operations of the EBRD.
- Increasing inequality in transition economies : is there more to come?
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November 23, 2007 17:28
This paper decomposes changes in inequality, which has in general been increasing in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, both by income source and socio-economic group, with a view to understanding the determinants of inequality and assessing how it might evolve in the future.
- Private ownership and corporate performance: evidence from transition economies
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November 26, 2007 15:41
The assumption behind privatisation in eastern Europe and elsewhere is that private ownership improves corporate performance. The paper focuses on comparing the performance of state firms with either private or privatised firms operating under reasonably similar conditions in three countries of eastern Europe.
- Customer market power and the provision of trade credit : evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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November 26, 2007 17:22
This study provides an explanation for this by arguing that customers who possess strong market power are able to increase their customer surplus by demanding to purchase the goods on credit.
- The savings collapse during the transition in Eastern Europe
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January 2, 2008 15:48
The authors assess the presence and extent of involuntary savings by comparing the predicted savings rates of market economies with those of the pre-transition economies.
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