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Inequality, Fiscal Capacity and the Political Regime: Lessons from the Post-Communist Transition [PDF]

Using panel data for twenty-seven post-communist economies between 1987-2003, we examine the nexus of relationships between inequality, fiscal capacity (defined as the ability to raise taxes efficiently) and the political regime. Investigating the impact
Christopher Gerry, Tomasz Mickiewicz
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Construction of indicator system and comprehensive evaluation of high-quality development of cultural tourism integration in revolutionary base areas. [PDF]

PLoS One
Li P, Xu C, Liang H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Transition Strategies and Economic Performances in the Former Soviet States: A Comparative Institutional View [PDF]

The objective of this paper is to elucidate the relationship between the reform process and economic performance in the states of the former Soviet Union (FSU).
Iwasaki, Ichiro
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Public Health Communication Challenges in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health
Lim L, Mukasheva A, Alegbe AO, Emehel AN, Aubakirova B, Semenova Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries [PDF]

The formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have experienced a remarkable demographic transformation in the past twenty years.
Brainerd, Elizabeth
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Cold war of strains: the 'Bulgarian' BCG vaccine between Paris, Copenhagen, and Moscow (1940s-1950s). [PDF]

Med Hist
Angelova M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization's Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The deglobalization process experienced in the early 2020s is not without precedent. This Special Issue leverages business history as a lens to generate new insights and to uncover previously hidden complexities and nuances. Studying previous periods of deglobalization and their varying drivers, outcomes, and responses, the papers in this ...
Andrew Smith, Heidi Tworek, Marcelo Bucheli, Johann Fortwengel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparison of Soviet and US Industrial Performance: 1928-90

This paper contains estimates of comparative labour productivity levels in manufacturing for the Soviet Union and the USA. Value added was converted to a common currency by using an expenditure based unit value ratio (or purchasing power parity).
Kouwenhoven, Remco
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