Creating the Reform-resistant Dependent Economy

Creating the Reform-resistant Dependent Economy

Author: Arye L. Hillman

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 33

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How the CMEA system of international trade affected enterprise incentives and inhibited market-oriented domestic reform in the Eastern European socialist economies.


A RMSM-X Model for Chile

A RMSM-X Model for Chile

Author: Luis Serven

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 105

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A simple macroeconomic model is applied to macroeconomic data for Chile.


The Business Cycle Associated with Exchange-rate-based Stabilization

The Business Cycle Associated with Exchange-rate-based Stabilization

Author: Miguel Alberto Kiguel

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 59

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Disinflation programs in chronic inflation countries do not normally follow the usual Phillips curve tradeoff in the medium run. Instead of having a sharp recession in the early stage of stabilization, there often is an initial expansion of output followed by a recession and balance of payments difficulties. This pattern is related to programs that use the exchange rate as an instrument of disinflation.


East Central Europe and Communism

East Central Europe and Communism

Author: Sabrina P. Ramet

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-23

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1000877124

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The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions.


The Fall

The Fall

Author: Steven Saxonberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1351544667

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With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USAThe Fall examines one of the twentieth century's great historical puzzles: why did the communist-led regimes in Eastern Europe collapse so quickly and why was the process of collapse so different from country to country? This major study explains why the impetus for change in Poland and Hungary came from the regimes themselves, while in Czechoslovakia and East Germany it was mass movements which led to the downfall of the regimes.


Handbook on Urban Social Policies

Handbook on Urban Social Policies

Author: Kazepov, Yuri

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-07-22

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1788116151

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The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytical tools to understand urban social policies in context, and bridges the gap in research.