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Economic and non-economic returns to Communist Party membership in Vietnam

Single-party political systems exist in a number of countries, such as China and Vietnam. In these countries, party membership is potentially an important source of economic and social status...

Communist Income Credit
Book Chapter
Why Are the Elite in China Motivated and Able to Promote Growth?

From the book: The Role of Elites in Economic Development

Communist Economic development Political science
Book Chapter
Innovation and Dynamism: Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress

From the book: Economies in Transition

Capitalism Communist Comparative economics
Book Chapter
Twenty Years of Political Transition

From the book: Economies in Transition

Communist Comparative economics Econometric models
Book Chapter
The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?

From the book: Economies in Transition

Communist History of economics Institutional economics
Book Chapter
Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition

From the book: Economies in Transition

Communist Institutional economics Microeconomics
Book Chapter
Transition, Structural Divergence, and Performance: Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union over 2000-2007

From the book: Economies in Transition

Communist Economic development Industrial productivity
Book Chapter
The Long Road to Normalcy: Where Russia Now Stands

From the book: Economies in Transition

Communist Comparative economics Econometric models (Economic development)
Book Chapter
Transition in Southeast Europe: Understanding Economic Development and Institutional Change

From the book: Economies in Transition

Communist Economic development Institutional economics
Book Chapter
Central Asia after Two Decades of Independence

From the book: Economies in Transition

Communist Comparative economics Economic development
Working Paper
Why Are the Elite in China Motivated to Promote Growth?

Rapid economic development in China in the post-1978 era has been considered 'intriguing' and 'puzzling' since it occurred under the dominance of the Chinese Communist Party – the fusion of politics and economics is supposed to ...

Communist Economic development Political science
Working Paper
The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?

This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years...

Communist History of economics Institutional economics
Working Paper
Central Asia after Two Decades of Independence

After becoming independent in 1991, the five Central Asian countries pursued differing transition paths from the defunct central planning. This paper analyses the connection between economic policies and performance during the 1990s and 2000s...

Communist Comparative economics Economic development
Working Paper
Transition in Southeast Europe: Understanding Economic Development and Institutional Change

The paper analyses the 20-year experience with transition in the SEE countries in a comparative framework, illustrating how these countries encountered difficulties in its implementation, despite having some of the best starting conditions in 1989 to...

Communist Economic development Institutional economics
Working Paper
Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition

This paper examines the relationship between differences in civil society development under communism and the political, economic and institutional change and transformation after 1989...

Communist Institutional economics Microeconomics
Working Paper
Innovation and Dynamism: Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress

Literature on post-socialist transformation usually deals with the political, economic and social sides of it, although there have also been important changes in the field of technical advance in the last 20 years...

Capitalism Communist Comparative economics
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