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  • Making It Happen

    Selected Case Studies of Institutional Reforms in South Africa

    Edited by Asad Alam, Renosi Mokate, Kathrin A. Plangemann ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Public Sector Governance
    South Africa has achieved a lot on its path of socio-economic transformation since the end of Apartheid in 1994. While many challenges remain to foster inclusive growth to address the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty, and inequality, some innovative approaches have been used to build more inclusive public institutions. These have helped to expand service delivery, strengthen quality, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

    Some Insights from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey

    by Salman Zaidi, Asad Alam, Pradeep K. Mitra, Ramya Sundaram ...
    Series Book 162 - World Bank Working Papers
    The past two decades in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have been times of tremendous change, with countries undergoing rapid transformation from centrally-planned to market-oriented economies. While poverty increased during the initial years of transition, primarily on account of the sharp economic contraction, the resurgence of economic growth in the region since 1998 has resulted in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Satisfaction With Life And Service Delivery In Eastern Europe And The Former Soviet Union: Some Insights From The 2006 Life In Transition Survey

    by Zaidi Salman; Alam Asad; Mitra Pradeep K. ...
    The past two decades in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have been times of tremendous change, with countries undergoing rapid transformation from centrally-planned to market-oriented economies. While poverty increased during the initial years of transition, primarily on account of the sharp economic contraction, the resurgence of economic growth in the region since 1998 has resulted in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Sovereign Funds

    How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions

    by Zongyuan Zoe Liu ...
    **“A fascinating insight into the evolution of China’s financial policy and its strategic investments using leveraged foreign exchange reserves.” —Diane Coyle, *Enlightened Economist ***“[Liu] shows that Chinese sovereign funds are so different from better-known sovereign wealth funds, such as those of the governments of Abu Dhabi and Norway, that she prefers to call them ‘sovereign leveraged ... Read more

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  • Best Laid Plans: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: The Inside Story of Reform in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar

    by Sean Turnell ...
    Best laid Plans is a unique first-hand account of the radical economic reforms implemented in Myanmar under the ill-fated civilian government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. These reforms, designed both to turn around Myanmar’s dire economy and lay the economic foundations for democracy, were brought to a dramatic end following the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021. Written by one of Suu Kyi’s ... Read more

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  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

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  • Rural Transition in Azerbaijan

    by Zvi Lerman, David Sedik ...
    Series series Rural Economies in Transition
    In 1995–96 the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alieyev, launched a program of agrarian reforms that caused a sweeping and irreversible shift from Soviet-style collective agriculture to individual farming in his country. These reforms led to an impressive recovery and substantial productivity improvements in agriculture. The agrarian transition in Azerbaijan contrasts with that in Russia, Ukraine, ... Read more

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  • 70 Years of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

    by Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia ...
    In 2014, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS) celebrated the 70th anniversary of its establishment. In these decades it evolved into an impartial and trustworthy institution with implemented quality standards. To mark this jubilee, a special publication was issued with the description of the most important milestones and achievements in the last decade. This publication is a ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Banking Industry

    Lessons from History for Today's Challenges

    by Yuanyuan Peng ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949.Banking reform is a key area of China’s economic transformation, and this book, bringing a vast amount of material to a Western audience for the first time, provides a detailed ... Read more

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  • Public Private Partnerships in International Construction

    Learning from case studies

    by Albert P. C. Chan, Esther Cheung ...
    Over the last ten years public private partnerships have become ever more popular worldwide, expanding the body of experience among construction professionals, government agencies, and industry. In these economically challenging times, PPP has emerged as a crucial framework for providing infrastructure, and also to boost construction industry activity, while shielding the taxpayer from some of the ... Read more

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  • Unveiling the North Korean Economy

    Collapse and Transition

    by Byung-Yeon Kim ...
    North Korea is one of the most closed and secretive societies in the world. Despite a high level of interest from the outside world, we have very little detailed information about how the country functions economically. In this valuable book for both the academic and policy-making circles, Byung-Yeon Kim offers the most comprehensive and systematic analysis of the present day North Korean economy ... Read more

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