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    Improving the quality of health care for chronic conditions

    British Medical Journal, 2004
    This article, published by the British Medical Journal, argues that chronic conditions – non-communicable diseases, mental disorders and latterly HIV and AIDS – are increasingly the concern of healthcare systems all over the world.
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    Productivity differential and competition: can an old dog be taught new tricks?

    Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2005
    The paper suggests that current Ukrainian policies including WTO and EU accession plans and competition policy, are essential determinants of productive efficiency in the manufacturing sector.
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    Households' demand for higher environment quality: the case of Russia

    Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2005
    The economic recession of the 1990s reduced the negative impact of human activities on the environment in Russia. However there exists a significant regional differentiation in air and water pollution.
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    Impact of joining the WTO on Ukrainian ferrous metallurgy: subsidies vs. antidumping, is there really a trade-off?

    Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2005
    Metallurgy is a key sector of the Ukrainian economy. According to the authors its most remarkable features are on the one hand, subsidising steel producers; and on the other, permanent antidumping investigations of Ukrainian metallurgical exports.
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    Toward a conflict sensitive poverty reduction strategy: lessons from a retrospective analysis

    World Bank, 2005
    This report aims to determine how causes and consequences of violent conflict can best be addressed within a country’s poverty reduction program. It is based on a a retrospective analysis of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) experience in nine conflict affected countries namely, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH), Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Georgia, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka.
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    Regulating entrepreneurial behaviour in European health care systems

    European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2002
    This policy brief, published by the European Observatory on Health Care Systems, asks what level and type of regulation is most appropriate in initiatives which aim to use elements of both the public and private sectors to provide health care.
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    The economic prospects of the CIS: the sources of long term growth (synthesis)

    Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland, Department of Economics, 2003
    This document, published by the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, is a synthesis of a 2003 book bringing together ten studies on the transition and growth experience and the foundations for long-term growth of the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.
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    Morbidity and mortality in transition countries in the European context

    United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 2004
    This paper, published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), examines patterns of health and mortality in the transition countries of central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
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    Institutional design and the closure of public facilities in transition economies

    Economics of Transition [Journal], 2002
    This paper, published in the journal Economics of Transition, presents a rationale for the separation of powers between regulators and financing bodies in the delivery of health care in transitional economies. Many transitional economies, particularly in central and eastern Europe, have adopted national insurance schemes.
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    Informal payments in transitional economies: implications for health sector reform

    International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2000
    This paper, published in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management, examines the issue of informal payments for health care services in the countries of the former Soviet Union and central and eastern Europe.

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