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Determinants of Bulgarian Brady Bond Prices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Determinants of Bulgarian Brady Bond Prices

"Macroeconomic variables and changes in foreign reserves affect the secondary market price of Brady bonds in Bulgaria. So do changes in the external environment, including crises in other parts of the world"--Cover.

An Ecological and Historical Perspective on Agricultural Development in Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 42

An Ecological and Historical Perspective on Agricultural Development in Southeast Asia

How location, natural resources, and different policies toward the elite's preemption of unused land shaped the historical development of different agrarian structures across Southeast Asia, conditioning agricultural growth performance until today.

New Tools and New Tests in Comparative Political Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 52

New Tools and New Tests in Comparative Political Economy

"Some say that democracy is more likely to survive under parliamentary governments. That result is not robust to the use of different variables from the Database of Political Institutions, a large new cross-country database that may illuminate many other issues affecting and affected by political institutions"--Cover.

Willingness to Pay for Air Quality Improvements in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Willingness to Pay for Air Quality Improvements in Sofia, Bulgaria

  • Categories: Air

"People in Sofia are willing to pay 4.2 percent of their income or more for a program to improve air quality"--Cover.

The Vicious Circles of Control
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 28

The Vicious Circles of Control

"In Russia and other transition economies that have implemented voucher privatization programs, how can one account for the puzzling behavior of insider-managers who, in stripping assets from the very firms they own, appear to be stealing from one pocket to fill the other?"--Cover.

Why Liberalization Alone Has Not Improved Agricultural Productivity in Zambia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 28

Why Liberalization Alone Has Not Improved Agricultural Productivity in Zambia

Policies to foster accumulation of the assets needed for agricultural production (including draft animals and implements) and to provide complementary public goods (education, credit, and good agricultural extension services)could greatly help reduce poverty and improve productivity in Zambia.

Transparency, Liberalization and Banking Crises
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 40

Transparency, Liberalization and Banking Crises

"Lack of transparency increases the probability of a banking crisis following financial liberalization. In a country where government policy is not transparent, banks may tend to increase credit above the optimal level"--Cover.

Resolving Bank Failures in Argentina
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 40

Resolving Bank Failures in Argentina

When the international financial community finally develops core principles and minimum standards for resolving bank failures, Argentina's experience should serve as an important reference in identifying best practices.

Industrial Environmental Performance in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

Industrial Environmental Performance in China

"Inspections have a statistically significant impact on firms' environmental performance in the Chinese city of Zhenjiang, and citizens' complaints have significant impact on inspections. So stronger information and education campaigns may improve social welfare in the city"--Cover.

Single Mothers in Russia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Single Mothers in Russia

Because of the decline in government assistance that accompanied economic reform in Russia, single mothers there, facing a greater risk of poverty, are increasingly choosing to live with other adults or relatives.