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The role of industrial clustering: From layoff to self-employment after the Chinese state-owned enterprise reform by Zhang, Yunfei, Chen, Kevin Z.

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Fertilizer subsidies in Africa: Are vouchers the answer? by Minot, Nicholas, Benson, Todd

“…In the 1970s and 1980s, most African countries sold fertilizer at subsidized prices through state-owned enterprises. In response to the fiscal cost and ineffective implementation of these subsidies, as well as pressure from international financial institutions, almost all of these countries liberalized their fertilizer markets to some degree as part of structural adjustment programs carried out in the late 1980s and early 1990s. …”
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Rice market liberalization and poverty in Viet Nam by Minot, Nicholas, Goletti, Francesco

“…Market liberalization, though an important element in economic reforms in developing countries in the past two decades, has been accused of harming the poor through higher food prices, layoffs in formerly state-owned enterprises, and the erosion of social safety net programs. …”
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Rice market liberalization and poverty in Viet Nam by Minot, Nicholas, Goletti, Francesco

“…Market liberalization, though an important element in economic reforms in developing countries in the past two decades, has been accused of harming the poor through higher food prices, layoffs in formerly state-owned enterprises, and the erosion of social safety net programs. …”
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The evolution of Chinese entrepreneurial firms: Township-village enterprises revisited by Xu, Chenggang, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…TVEs also played a key role in fostering entrepreneurship and served as a major stepping-stone for institutional changes when legal protections of private property rights were not in place and the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) were slow to react to changing market demand. …”
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Resource abundance and regional development in China by Zhang, Xiaobo, Xing, Li, Fan, Shenggen, Luo, Xiaopeng

“…Because of the institutional arrangements regarding property rights of natural resources, most gains from the resource boom have been captured either by the government‐ or state‐owned enterprises. Thus, the windfall of natural resources has more to do with government consumption than household consumption. …”
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Resource abundance and regional development in China by Zhang, Xiaobo, Xing, Li, Fan, Shenggen, Luo, Xiaopeng

“…Because of the institutional arrangements regarding property rights of natural resources, most gains from the resource boom have been captured either by the government or state owned enterprises. Thus, the windfall of natural resources has more to do with government consumption than household consumption. …”
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Rice markets, agricultural growth, and policy options in Viet Nam by Goletti, Francesco, Minot, Nicholas

“…The study is based on extensive data collection from marketing agents (farmers, traders, millers, state owned enterprises, and exporters) conducted during 1995 and 1996.…”
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Reforming agricultural markets in Africa by Kherallah, Mylene, Delgado, Christopher L., Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude, Minot, Nicholas, Johnson, Michael E.

“…In the agricultural sector these programs were designed to eliminate price controls on agricultural commodities, disband or privatize state farms and state-owned enterprises, reduce the heavy taxation of agricultural exports, phase out subsidies on fertilizer and other inputs, and allow greater competition in agricultural markets. …”
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Political constraints and opportunities for agricultural investment in Sudan by D'Silva, Brian, Hassan, Rashid, Hutur, Abdelrahman, Ibrahim, Sami, Abushama, Hala, Siddig, Khalid, Kirui, Oliver K.

“…This Political Economy Assessment (PEA) exercise has highlighted that the military and paramilitary structures occupy a large market share of the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), private company partnerships, and land leases to foreign companies in the agriculture sector. …”
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The road half traveled: agricultural market reform in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kherallah, Mylene, Delgado, Christopher L., Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude, Minot, Nicholas, Johnson, Michael E.

“…Agricultural reforms included the removal of price controls, deregulation of agricultural marketing, closure of state-owned enterprises that monopolized agricultural trade, and changes in the foreign exchange market to provide greater incentives for exports. …”
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How headquarters relocation is affected by rising wages and ownership: Evidence from China's annual survey of industrial enterprises, 1999–2008 by Wang, Qingtao, Chen, Kevin Z., Chiang, Longwen, Xie, Xuanli

“…While privately owned and state-owned enterprises are likely to relocate to areas with lower wages, foreign-owned headquarters tend to relocate to high-wage areas, as predicted by the “efficiency wage theory.” …”
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