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Regional integration in Central Asia: A firm-centered view
No full textRegional integration remains among the main topics of international discourse in Central Asia, though the progress of international cooperation is very limited. Our aim is to understand the connection between the organization of economic institutions in Central Asia and the regional integration. The existing literature has explored the state level of integration in great detail: varying from rational choice explanations of security dilemma to the studies of social construction of the region in Central Asia. This paper, however, provides a firm-centered perspective on the regional integration. Thus, it first considers how varieties of political economies of Central Asian countries influence the regionalization process in the region through economic networks established by private actors, and how institutions are shaped by regionalization. Second, it considers how political institutions determine the impact of informal networks on formal regional integration initiatives, and looks at the potential effect of formal regionalism on regionalization process in Central Asia.Regionalization, informal integration, transition
Economic role of public administration in Central Asia: Decentralization and hybrid political regime
No full textThe aim of the paper is to understand how the organization of public administration in Central Asia shapes the results of economic development in the region. It discusses the main factors of bad quality of public administration in the region, paying particular attention to the link between political regimes and public administration. Moreover, it provides an overview of decentralization and devolution of power in Central Asian countries as one of the main channels of transformation of administration. The paper covers both formal decentralization and informal distribution of power between levels of government.Public administration, hybrid regimes, decentralization
Un caso de endocarditis de Libman Sacks
No full textLibman y Sacks en 1924 evidenciaron lesiones en las válvulas cardiacas de pacientes con Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico, siendo las más afectadas la válvula mitral y la aórtica. Se trata de vegetaciones estériles, cuya prevalencia es del 53 al 74% y guarda relación con actividad lúpica y síndrome de anticuerpos antifosfolipídicos. El ecocardiograma es el estudio de elección para el diagnóstico y seguimiento de la enfermedad. La regurgitación es la afectación más frecuente, las lesiones valvulares pocas veces son severas, el tratamiento incluye profilaxis para endocarditis, manejo antiagregante y en algunos casos anticoagulante. El uso de corticoesteroides no previene la presentación de la enfermedad pero facilita la recuperación. En aquellos pacientes con disfunción valvular y repercusión hemodinámica se puede optar por manejo conservador. En casos seleccionados de afectación valvular severa se debe considerar el reemplazo valvular, así como individualizar el uso de válvula mecánica versus bioprotésica. En la actualidad la reparación valvular es una alternativa al reemplazo con mejores tasas de mortalidad y supervivencia
Government-Business Relations and Catching Up Reforms in the CIS
No full textThe paper addresses the problem of similarities and divergence of transition paths at the later stage of transition in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The main aim is to clarify the influence of specifics of government-business relations on economic reforms carried out at the later stage of transition in countries, which have been relatively less successful during the earlier transition. The paper discusses potential channels of influence of institutional organization of government-business relations on economic reforms and compares government-business relation models and paths of transition in Russia, Kazakhstan and UkrainePost-Soviet economies, catching up reforms, institutional trap, government-business relations
Libman–Sachs endocarditis: regression after immunosuppressive therapy in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus
No full textLibman–Sachs endocarditis (nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis, NBTE) may be one of the cardiac manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It is characterized by the presence of sterile platelet thrombi on previously normal heart valves. The diagnosis of NBTE is difficult as it is often asymptomatic until complications such as systemic emboli or valvular dysfunction occur. Patients with Libman–Sachs endocarditis and SLE are treated with immunosuppressive and anticoagulant therapy and, if it is ineffective, surgical treatment.A clinical case of SLE and Libman–Sachs endocarditis is presented. The clinical manifestations, diagnostic methods and treatment of NBTE in SLE are discussed. The difficulties in differential diagnosis and selection of optimal treatment tactics faced by physicians are highlighted
Institutional competition in the post-Soviet space
No full textInstitutional competition is often discussed as an instrument of market creation and preservation in transition and development economies. The post-Soviet space offers an interesting case study for the analysis of this problem: increasing international investment flows and absent policy coordination establish an environment for intensification of institutional competition among jurisdictions. Nevertheless, in the post-Soviet world the quality of institutions seems to remain low. This paper deals with potential effects of interjurisdictional competition on institutional quality in the post-Soviet space while addressing two levels of analysis: rational choice factors (economic inequality and learning effects) and interplay of formal and informal institutions (perception of free markets, trust to the public authority and interaction of deep and shallow institutional levels).Institutional competition, demand for bad institutions, formal and informal institutions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Different paths of the second transition in the post-Soviet world: a political-economic analysis
No full textThe first generation of economic reforms in the post-Soviet countries mostly resulted in formation of sustainable inefficient institutional equilibria, what may be described as the transition from “plan” to “clan”. Therefore the problem of the “second transition” from “clan” to “market” becomes especially important, turning in the centre of the transition studies. In the last years many post-Soviet states initiated the second wave of reforms, including restructuring of the banking system, of the housing and communal services and of natural monopolies, enhancing competition on markets for goods and services, as well as further reforms in the public sector. The paper aims to explain the perspectives of the “second transition” from a political-economic point of view, which considers the process of reforms as result of the interaction of different political and economic actors formed in turn of the “first transition”. The paper discusses the triggers of the second transition, choice of different scenarios of transition and its major threats.Second transition; interest groups; post-Soviet countries
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The Structural Outcomes of Investment Surges
No full textWe study the extent to which countries undergo structural change during and after episodes of sustained investment surges. In particular, we explore the evolution of trade flows, considering (i) exports sophistication or complexity, (ii) exports diversification, and (iii) capital goods imports. Using the episodes identified by Libman et al. (2019), we document the heterogeneous nature of these episodes and find that, while imports of capital goods increase, they are not systematically related to changes in sophistication, complexity and diversification of exports, at least for the available sample of 130 episodes over the period 1962-2014. High investment may often be a necessary but not sufficient condition for structural change
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