São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a small island nation in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Central Africa, is in many ways a country of great untapped wealth. Its economy has grown steadily over the past...
São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a small island nation in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Central Africa, is in many ways a country of great untapped wealth. Its economy has grown steadily over the past...
The analysis presented in this report assembles, for the first time, evidence from a variety of sources in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to show that policy and institutional...
The analysis presented in this report assembles, for the first time, evidence from a variety of sources in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to show that policy and institutional...
This study examines the impact of growth on poverty and inequality in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union during 1998-2003. To measure poverty, an absolute poverty line of $2 a day is used, comparing...
While the countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union have made significant progress in reducing poverty in the past five years, poverty and vulnerability remain significant problems. More...
Transition literature has emphasized stabilization and enterprise restructuring. Both cross-country analyses and country-specific studies have tended to focus on fiscal stabilization and its indicators...
Uzbekistan adopted a cautious, gradual approach to market reform. Kazakhstan followed a more aggressive strategy. But while Kazakhstan may have achieved a better policy environment, its economic performance...
Les réformes politiques depuis 1983 ont réduit le déficit budgétaire et l’inflation, contribué à l’amélioration des services d’infrastructure et permis de transférer les prix relatifs et les incitations...
The policy reforms since 1983 have reduced the fiscal deficit and inflation, helped improve infrastructure services, and shifted relative prices and incentives towards the tradable sector, in general...
Recent developments in trade theory - the result of applying models that embody imperfect competition and increasing returns to scale - suggest an activist role for government in trade policy and threaten...
The authors examine the wide-ranging and fundamental trade reforms undertaken in 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries in the 1980s. These reforms have dramatically altered the nature of the trade...