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Quota or not Quota? On Increasing Women’s Representation in Politics
All over the world, politics remains one of the most male-dominated spheres in society, in spite of the substantial prog…
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Household Exposure to Financial Risks: The First Wave of Impact From COVID-19 on the Economy
Since March 12, 2020, Poland has been under an increasing degree of quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The strict…
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Baltic Shadow Economies
This policy brief summarises the results and implications of a recent study of the size and determinants of the shadow e…
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Do Russians Oppose Anti-Tobacco Policy?
Russia is known as a persistent leader in terms of high adult mortality rates among the middle-income countries. Unhealt…
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Incomes of Polish Households in the Context of 2005-2011 Tax and Benefit Reforms: A Pre-Election Analysis
On October 9, Polish voters will decide who will form the new government. In an analysis of tax and benefit reforms intr…
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Shock “Therapy” the Market Way
Twenty years after transition began and the merits of “shock therapy” were argued the most hotly, (former) transition co…
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What Does Modern Political Economics Tell Us About the Fate of Russia’s Reforms?
After the 2008-09 crisis, Russia is facing a new set of challenges. The pre-crisis sources of growth have been exhausted…
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