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    The politics of service delivery reform

    Development and Change Journal, 2004
    This article, published in Development and Change, identifies the leaders, supporters and resisters of public service reform, drawing principally on research from Ghana, Zimbabwe, India and Sri Lanka. It finds that reform was often constrained by a lack of political commitment and by the interests embedded in existing organisational arrangements.
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    Africa: the impact of mobile phones

    Vodafone, 2005
    Africa has been the fastest-growing mobile market in the world during the past five years. There are now more than 82 million mobile users in Africa: Nigeria's mobile market is growing at over 100% per year.
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    FDI-based development model for Hungary – new challenges?

    Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, 2003
    The successful and smooth transition in Hungary and the consequent economic growth in the country are mainly a result of its government’s economic policy focused on the stimulation of foreign direct investment (FDI). According to the author, after the 1990s, however, the potential of the FDI-based growth model looks like it's reaching its saturation limits.
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    WTO/GATS and economic development: key to "the new economy"

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005
    This report outlines the programme on WTO/GATS and Economic Development which is part of a Strategic Institute Programme at CMI on Producer Services.The WTO/GATS programme covers three main issues:the adoption of information technology and its impact on supply chain managementthe impact of trade liberalisation (financial services, telecommunications and energy services in particular
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    The determinants of liberalisation of FDI policy in developing countries: a cross-sectional analysis, 1992-2001

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005
    This study of changes in regulations affecting inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) during the 1990s confirms the shift in developing countries from State- directed, inward-looking economic strategies towards open markets and integration into the world economy.
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    Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina: a success and a failure of transition

    Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, 2004
    Although following similar objectives, the reforms aimed at transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy in the Central European countries yielded different outcomes in comparison to the countries in Eastern Europe.The paper presents a comparative analysis of two ex-socialist countries - Hungary as an example of a successful transition economy; and Bosnia and Herzegovina, whe
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    Exchange rates in the new EU accession countries: what have we learned from the forerunners

    Czech National Bank, Czech Republic, 2004
    How can real exchange rates be estimated? What are the reasons for the real exchange rate appreciation?The paper develops a theoretical model of real exchange rate determination, and simulates it on a sample of three “forerunners” and four new accession countries.
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    Identification and measurement of relationships concerning inflow of FDI: the case of the Czech Republic

    Czech National Bank, Czech Republic, 2004
    What are the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the case of the Czech economy? What is their implication for the decision-making process within the Czech National Bank?
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    Transition and growth in Belarus

    Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2003
    The paper analyses the efficiency of Belarusian reforms carried out in the period of economic transition.The authors claim that at the beginning of the transition period in the early 90s, the problems that Belarus faced were more complicated and severe than those faced by other FSU countries.
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    Natural resources and economic growth in Kazakhstan

    Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2003
    This paper analyses the impact that the availability of mineral resources has on Kazakhstan’s economic growth, and proposes policy measures to make Kazakhstan’s economic growth more balanced.According to the authors, Kazakhstan’s economy is highly dependent on the extraction and export of mineral resources.

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