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    Main directions and mechanisms supporting development of competitive environment and anti-trust policy

    2003
    The goal of this paper is to analyze the legal and practical foundations of Uzbekistan’s antimonopoly policy and give policy recommendations to make Uzbekistan’s business environment more competitive.The authors identify several sources of monopoly power in Uzbekistan’s economy: sectoral monopolies that retain the status and functions of Soviet-era sectoral ministries the barriers t
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    Imitations and innovations in a transition economy

    Centre for Economic and Financial Research, Russian Federation, 2004
    This work analyses whether and how Russian firms innovate or imitate foreign products.
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    Internal displacement: global overview of trends and developments in 2004

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2005
    This report presents a global overview of the situation of IDPs in 2004. It identifies trends, central themes, and regional situations in internal displacement.The report’s findings include:Africa: with over 13 million IDPs in 19 countries, Africa remained the continent by far most affected by internal displacement in 2004.
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    Surveillance and control of communicable diseases: guidelines for public health services in Georgia

    Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004
    These guidelines, produced by Partners for Health Reformplus in collaboration with Curatio International Federation, Georgia, outline general procedures and standards for effective communicable disease control.
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    Barriers to sustainable tuberculosis control in the Russian Federation health system

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005
    This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), analyses and evaluates the impact of the arrangements for delivering tuberculosis (TB) services in the Russian Federation. It does so by looking at barriers and incentives created by organisational structures, financing and provider-payment systems.
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    The problems of rural youth unemployment

    Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation, 2004
    [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.]This paper analyses the problem of Russian rural unemployment and provides recommendations on how to accommodate that problem. The paper is based on a detailed study conducted in the Belgorod region.According to the author, rural unemployment is a serious problem.
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    The preferences and demand for credit by the Russian population

    Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation, 2003
    [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.]This paper analyses the Russian consumer credit market and provides policy recommendations to help make consumer credit more popular and available. The research is based on a survey conducted in 2003.According to the research, the Russian consumer credit market grew by more than 200% between 2001 and 2002.
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    Young specialists in state and municipal service

    Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation, 2003
    [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.]Based on official statistics and detailed surveys, the study looks at gender distribution, the recruitment process, job-finding strategies, job motivation and career paths of young specialists (up to 35 years) employed by state and municipal organs.
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    Commercialization of militia services

    Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of Population,, Russian Federation, 2004
    [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.]The scope of professional activities of the Russian militia (police) greatly expanded during the 1990s to include many paid-for services such as providing security, information, transportation and paperwork services.
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    Does privatization raise productivity? Evidence from comprehensive panel data on manufacturing firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine

    Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2004
    Does privatisation affect firm productivity?The paper analyzes the productivity effects of privatisation using panel data on manufacturing firms in four transition economies.The authors found that privatisation:has a substantial positive effect on productivity in Romania, a smaller positive effect in Hungary, and a much lower, but still positive effect in Ukraine has a small nega

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