Comparative Economic Studies articles from March 2005

Comparative Economic Studies archives from March 2005

Introduction to special issue: symposium Part II.
March 1, 2005... IMF CONDITIONALITY AND PROGRAMME OWNERSHIP IN DEVELOPING AND EMERGING ECONOMIES: IMPLEMENTATION AND RESEARCH AGENDA The purpose of the special issue is to contribute to the ongoing debate on the effectiveness of IMF conditionality and...

IMF programmes in emerging countries.
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The IMF has been providing stabilisation programmes to its members for almost 5 decades. Until the end of the gold standard period in the early 1970s, the Fund provided balance of payments support mostly to developed...

IMF-supported programmes in transition economies: are they effective?
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Since the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its organizational structure and programmes have been criticized, in terms of transparency, accountability, effectiveness, and conditionality. The IMF has been...

IMF programmes, fiscal policy and growth: investigation of macroeconomic alternatives in an OLG model of growth for Turkey (1).
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Would it be much of an exaggeration to identify 1990s for Turkish economy as the 'lost decade'? Turkey initiated its long process of integration with the world commodity and financial markets with the initiation of the...

Symposium on Russian agriculture factor market constraints on economic growth in Russian agriculture--Golitsino papers: an introduction to special issue.
March 1, 2005... Comparative Economic Studies (2005) 47, 80-84. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100077 Back in July 2000, a group of Russian and American researchers met in the University of Maryland at College Park to discuss the preparation of a joint research...

Large and small business in Russian agriculture: adaptation to market.
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The main agricultural producers in Russia are large and superlarge corporate farms, on the one hand, and small or very small family farms, on the other. This article describes how the farms in these two categories evolve and...

Development of peasant farms in Central Russia.
March 1, 2005... Peasant farmers are a special legally defined category of agricultural producers in Russia. Together with household plots, they form the individual sector of Russian agriculture. These are individual or family farmers who differ from household...

Russia's new agricultural operators: their emergence, growth and impact.(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2005... During the Soviet period, Russian agriculture was characterised by large collective and state farms co-existing with small household plots. The breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s brought with it an expectation of a breakup of the...

Agricultural land market in Russia: living with constraints.
March 1, 2005... Pre-reform agriculture in the USSR was characterised by state monopoly of land and by land use that did not require any payment. The legal principles of land reform in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union were set in 1989 by the Basic...

Agricultural employment in Russia 1990-2003.
March 1, 2005... The institutional reforms of the 1990s have produced significant changes in the level and structure of rural employment. The collective and state farms that traditionally dominated the rural labour scene with their 10 million workers have been...

Markets for purchased farm inputs in Russia.
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Russian policy makers usually argue that agriculture suffers from severe decapitalisation due to financial constraints faced by producers. This view is the basis of the national agricultural policy, which emphasises...

Nonpayments, bankruptcy and government support in Russian agriculture.
March 1, 2005... In this article, we examine some government policies that have a bearing on the main financial issues of the farm sector. These include policies relating to debt rescheduling, subsidised credit, and investment support. Debt rescheduling and...

Determinants of access to credit for corporate farms in Russia.
March 1, 2005... The Russian establishment--politicians, agricultural officials, corporate farm managers, the media--firmly believe that inadequate access to credit is one of the major factors constraining the growth of the agricultural sector, in technical...

Financial performance and efficiency of corporate farms in northwest Russia.
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Large corporate farms or farm enterprises--the successors of Soviet collective and state farms--have lost their former dominant role in agriculture, but still account for more than 40% of agricultural product, control nearly...

Allocative and technical efficiency of corporate farms in Russia.(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Russian agriculture appears to have recovered from the general collapse of the 1990s. Estimation of the current level of technical efficiency of agricultural producers will reveal the potential for growth through increasing...

The allocative efficiency of material input use in Russian agriculture.
March 1, 2005... During Russia's transition from a planned to a market economy, the volume of material inputs used in agriculture has declined severely. From 1990 to 2002, use of mineral fertiliser, other soil-enhancing chemicals (such as lime), and gasoline...

Golitsino Papers: summary of findings and implications.
March 1, 2005... Comparative Economic Studies (2005) 47, 224-228. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100084 How far do the Golitsino Papers permit us to go in drawing conclusions about the state of Russian agriculture in the early 21st century and prospects for the...

The New Political Economy of Russia.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The New Political Economy of Russia Erik Berglof, Andrei Kunov, Julia Shvets and Ksenia Yudaeva The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2003, pp. 168. Comparative Economic Studies (2005) 47, 229-231....

The Limits of Protectionism: Building Coalitions for Free Trade.
March 1, 2005... The Limits of Protectionism: Building Coalitions for Free Trade Michael Lusztig University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, PA, 2004, pp. 288. $27.95 paper. Comparative Economic Studies (2005) 47, 232-234. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100075...

Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence Yi Feng MIT Press: Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2003, pp. xvii + 383. Comparative Economic Studies (2005) 47, 235-238. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100076 In the...