The author examines the role of guarantor as one of the means of securing housing credits as well as the international practice of developing mortgage lending.

This paper empirically investigates the variety of FDI impacts on different sectors using firm level data. In particular, the unique dataset (which represents about 80% of the firms’ population) enables to analyze whether linkages between sectors can explain the difference in the impact of FDI on firm’s productivity as well as spillovers across sectors.

This is the first paper to study the evolution of the gender wage gap in the Republic of Belarus.

This paper investigates the trends in intergenerational educational mobility in thirteen post-communist economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU) for which little empirical evidence has been made available thus far.

In this paper the author uses household budget surveys from both countries to explain and quantify the roles of the “second agriculture”in both Belarus and Ukraine and to shed light on the surprising patterns.

This article investigates the impact of institutional environment on the volumes of private investments in infrastructural sectors in low and middle income countries.