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Private Service Firms in a Transitional Economy

Findings of a Survey in St. Petersburg

By: Martha De Melo,Gur Ofer

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Private Service Firms in a Transitional Economy

Findings of a Survey in St. Petersburg

By: Martha De Melo,Gur Ofer

Studies of Economies in Transformation Paper 11. The service industry is the largest and most dynamic sector of the newly emerging private sector in St. Petersburg. Little is known, however, about the entrepreneurs and firms in this sector or about

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World Bank Publications

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0821327976

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9780821327975

The Service Sector in Soviet Economic Growth

A Comparative Study

By: Gur Ofer

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The Service Sector in Soviet Economic Growth

A Comparative Study

By: Gur Ofer

Comparison of the service sector in the USSR and abroad - maintains that the small share of the service sector in the soviet economy is due chiefly to the socialist economic system and to its economic growth strategy, covers theoretical aspects, industrial aspects, the industrial structure, service labour force, the service gap in commerce, etc., and relies primarily on data for the period up to 1968. Bibliography, references and statistical tables.

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228

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Harvard University Press

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0674801806

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9780674801806

The Soviet Household Under the Old Regime

Economic Conditions and Behaviour in the 1970s

By: Gur Ofer,Aaron Vinokur

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The Soviet Household Under the Old Regime

Economic Conditions and Behaviour in the 1970s

By: Gur Ofer,Aaron Vinokur

This 1992 book provides a detailed analysis of the economics of the Soviet urban household sector during the 1970s.

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418

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Cambridge University Press

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0521383986

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9780521383981

Reforming Planned Economies in an Integrating World Economy

By: Barry P. Bosworth,Gur Ofer

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Reforming Planned Economies in an Integrating World Economy

By: Barry P. Bosworth,Gur Ofer

The still chaotic states of the former Soviet Union, a growing China, and the divergent nations of Eastern Europe are striving to radically transform their economies. In their quest to become more integrated with the global economy, they are making historic changes to move toward market-based, private-enterprise systems. In this book, Barry P. Bosworth and Gur Ofer provide a balanced assessment of the progress of integration among the formerly centrally planned economies. So far, the results of the reform process range from amazing success in China to economic and political disarray in the states of the former Soviet Union. The authors outline the key issues that any successful reform program must address and the sequence in which these reforms should take place. A volume of Brookings' Integrating National Economies Series

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815791313

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9780815791317

Zionism Without Zion

The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization

By: Gur Alroey

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Zionism Without Zion

The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization

By: Gur Alroey

Examines an alternative ideology to Zionism that attempted to build a Jewish State outside of Palestine. While the ideologies of Territorialism and Zionism originated at the same time, the Territorialists foresaw a dire fate for Eastern European Jews, arguing that they could not wait for the Zionist Organization to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. This pessimistic worldview led Territorialists to favor a solution for the Jewish state "here and now"—and not only in the Land of Israel. In Zionism without Zion: The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization, author Gur Alroey examines this group's unique perspective, its struggle with the Zionist movement, its Zionist rivals' response, and its diplomatic efforts to obtain a territory for the Jewish people in the first decades of the twentieth century. Alroey begins by examining the British government's Uganda Plan and the ensuing crisis it caused in the Zionist movement and Jewish society. He details the founding of the Jewish Territorial Organization (ITO) in 1903 and explains the varied reactions that the Territorialist ideology received from Zionists and settlers in Palestine. Alroey also details the diplomatic efforts of Territorialists during their desperate search for a suitable territory, which ultimately never bore fruit. Finally, he attempts to understand the reasons for the ITO's dissolution after the Balfour Declaration, explores the revival of Territorialism with the New Territorialists in the 1930s and 1940s, and describes the similarities and differences between the movement then and its earlier version. Zionism without Zion sheds new light on the solutions Territorialism proposed to alleviate the hardship of Eastern European Jews at the start of the twentieth century and offers fresh insights into the challenges faced by Zionism in the same era. The thorough discussion of this under-studied ideology will be of considerable interested to scholars of Eastern European history, Jewish history, and Israel studies.

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