Comparative Economic Studies articles from December 2005

Comparative Economic Studies archives from December 2005

Transition: intended and unintended processes.
December 1, 2005... INTENDED PROCESSES A remarkable feature of actually existing transition was the combination of intended and unintended processes. Transition was intended (by the international financial institutions (1)) to comprise the Holy Trinity (2) of...

Unemployment benefit systems in central and eastern Europe: a review of the 1990s (1).
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION One of the most conspicuous consequences of the transition of former socialist economies has been the emergence of large-scale, open unemployment--a phenomenon unheard of before the transition. These economies have thus been...

Farm productivity and profitability: a comparative analysis of selected new and existing EU member states (1).
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The 1990s witnessed widespread changes in farm structures, government policies and agricultural markets in the Central and East European Countries (CEECs) that are New Member States (NMS) of the EU. These changes have resulted...

Individual farming as a labour sink: evidence from Poland and Russia.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION In developing and developed countries, small-scale family farms are observed to use more labour per unit of land than large-scale corporate farms and consequently show a lower productivity of labour but a higher productivity...

Managing FDI in a Globalizing Economy: Asian Experiences.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Managing FDI in a Globalizing Economy. Asian Experiences Douglas H Brooks and Hal Hill (eds), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 307 pp. This study concerns national government policies towards foreign direct investment (FDI), the role of...

Disinflation in Transition Economics.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Disinflation in Transition Economics Marek Dabrowski (ed) Central European University Press: Budapest and New York, 2003 This book is a collection of 13 chapters on the economies of several transition economies, carried out by the Center...

The Economic Prospects of the CIS: Sources of Long Term Growth.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Economic Prospects of the CIS: Sources of Long Term Growth Gur Ofer and Richard Pomfret (eds) Edward Elgar: Cheltenham and Northampton, MA, 2004, pp. xiv, 300. This useful volume features surveys of 10 of the 12 members of the...

Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan.(Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan Rafts Abazov The Scarecrow Press: Lanham, Maryland, 2004, 416pp. Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan Rafis Abazov The Scarecrow Press: Lanham, Maryland, 2005, 240pp. Comparative economists called...

The Handbook of Economic Sociology.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Handbook of Economic Sociology Edited by Neil J Smelser and Richard Swedberg Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 2nd edition, paper, 2005, 736pp. To explain as fully as possible the paths of post-Communist transition,...

Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower Steven Rosefielde Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2005, pp. 244. In his new book, Steven Rosefielde argues that Russia may be rebuilding superpower-class military at the expense of...

Financial Structure and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Comparison of Banks, Markets and Development.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Financial Structure and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Comparison of Banks, Markets and Development Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine (eds) The MIT Press: Cambridge and London, 2001, vii + 436 pp., index. The connection between financial...

State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialisation in the Global Periphery.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialisation in the Global Periphery Atul Kohli Cambridge University Press: West Nyack, NY, 2004. The appropriate role for the state in a developing economy is a long-standing point of...