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What Drives the Optimal Bankruptcy Law Design
May 15, 2007 09:51

This paper sets a stage for the debate about the optimal bankruptcy law design in the Czech Republic.

The Wig and the Pith Helmet – the Impact of "Legal School" versus Colonial Institutions on Economic Performance (second version)
May 15, 2007 09:51

The difference between common law and French civil law countries fails to have a statistically significant effect on economic growth, whereas the difference between British and French colonies has a strong effect when the two pairs of institutional variables are included separately in regressions.

Economic growth and solving unemployment issue
May 15, 2007 09:54

This analytical report considers poverty level and unemployment in Tajikistan and ways to fight it.

Information society - 2002, Issue 2
May 15, 2007 09:54

This scientific-analytical journal is a Russian publication that systematically and step by step considers the government policy in this field. This issue has the following table of content:

  1. Electronic Moscow
  2. Information society and law
  3. E-governance
  4. Information, consultations, advertisement

Information society - 2001, Issue 4
May 15, 2007 09:54

This scientific-analytical journal is a Russian publication that systematically and step by step considers the government policy in this field. This issue has the following table of content:

  1. Information society and information security
  2. Information society and law
  3. Social aspects of transition into information society
  4. Technologies of information society

Law and finance in transition economies
November 23, 2007 11:53

This paper offers a first comprehensive analysis of legal change in shareholder and creditor rights protection in transition economies and its impact on the propensity of firms to raise external finance.

Belarus - Window of opportunity to enhance competitiveness and sustain economic growth - a Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for the Republic of Belarus (Vol. 2 of 2)
November 23, 2007 12:45

This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for the Republic of Belarus takes stock of the growth trends in the country's economy since 1996, reviews the evidence of the accumulated challenges and risks within the existing growth patterns, and provides recommendations aimed at strengthening growth sustainability. In sum, while economic growth in the last nine years has been impressive, the report argues that maintaining the current growth strategy would lead to a gradual erosion of economic competitiveness.

Kyrgyz Republic - Country Economic Memorandum - Enhancing the prospects for growth and trade (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (Russian)
November 23, 2007 12:48

This Country Economic Memorandum is aimed at helping the authorities in the Kyrgyz Republic identify factors explaining the apparent divergence between policies and outcomes, with a view to determining priorities for reform in the coming period.

Kyrgyz Republic - Country Economic Memorandum - Enhancing the prospects for growth and trade (Vol. 2 of 2) : Annexes (Russian)
November 23, 2007 12:49

This Country Economic Memorandum is aimed at helping the authorities in the Kyrgyz Republic identify factors explaining the apparent divergence between policies and outcomes, with a view to determining priorities for reform in the coming period.

Belarus - Strengthening public resource management
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.

Kazakhstan - Reforming intergovernmental fiscal relations
November 23, 2007 16:00

The report makes two major recommendations. First, it recommends that the Government of Kazakhstan provide separate, earmarked funding for functions with critical distributional implications. This would include primary education and primary health. These services would be financed on a capitation basis (i.e., an equal amount per pupil and registered patient, respectively.) The remaining subnational functions would be financed from an annually-determined share of the budget.

Tajikistan : Public expenditure and institutional review
November 23, 2007 16:10

This Public Expenditure and Institutional Review is part of a package of analytical and advisory service products aimed at assisting the government and Tajikistan's other development partners to develop a medium- to long-term strategy for public sector reform to support the government's poverty reduction objectives.

Tajikistan - Poverty assessment update
November 23, 2007 16:27

The primary purpose of this paper is to update the Poverty Assessment from June, 2000, and to give an assessment of the poverty situation in Tajikistan in 2003 and changes since 1999.

Serbia and Montenegro - Serbia Financial Sector Note
November 23, 2007 16:29

The purpose of this Financial Sector Note (FSN) is to review recent developments in Serbia's financial system, and to provide policy recommendations for its future development. T

Kyrgyz Republic - Enhancing pro-poor growth
November 23, 2007 16:38

The goal of this report has been to assist the Kyrgyz authorities in designing and implementing their National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS).

Russia - Development policy review
November 23, 2007 16:39

The objective of this report is to provide an assessment of the development objectives before the Russian Federation. To that end, this report assesses: 1) development outcomes and prospects, and 2) the extent to which the Government has been able to implement its social and structural reform program.

Analysis of administrative and regulatory costs of doing business in Gradiska Municipality
November 26, 2007 17:09

The report identifies existing administrative barriers in the territory of the Gradiska Municipality, and analyzes the investment climate within the Municipality.

Industrial growth and the quality of institutions : what do (transition) economies have to gain from the Rule of Law?
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.

Moldova on the Way to Democracy and Stability
January 18, 2008 17:00

This paper presents various aspects of home affairs and international security issues that come as a prologue to a series of important efforts towards strengthening the rule of law in Moldova. These efforts stems from a considerable rethinking of the security sector reform, including policy-making and policy-design, public education and public awareness activities, aiming to ensure public, individual, economic and political security, which is so needed by the citizens of the Republic of Moldova.

Political and Security Statewatch # 4(11) - April 2008
June 18, 2008 11:37

This issue touches the following three issues: changes in the electoral laws in Moldova and their possible political consequences, the progress Moldova achieved on the way to the EU integration.