Context Is Everything : Measuring Institutional Change in Transition Economies
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* This paper was prepared while the author was a World Bank's Robert S. McNamara Fellow. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed here are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliate organizations, or to members of its Board of Directors or the countries they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this report and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any consequence of their use. Without implicating, the author thanks Jeffrey B. Nugent, Vladimir Popov and seminar participants at the McNamara Workshop (in Washington) for valuable comments on earlier drafts. He also thanks Aurelijus Dabusinskas for the superb research assistance.
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