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- PublicationStructural adjustment and the effect of drought : the case of ZimbabweThis paper examines the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) of Zimbabwe and considers the effect of drought on the realisation of targets set in the ESAP. The paper concludes that (i) the ESAP was introduced before the debt problem was serious, (ii) the structural repairs were necessary, (iii) the ESAP contained many elements designed to counter the oft-quoted adverse effects of SAPs and (iv) the drought seriously affected the realisation of many of the targets in the ESAP.
95 - PublicationTeam Aer Lingus and Irish Steel: An Application of the Declining High-Wage Industries Literature(University College Dublin. Department of Business Administration ; University of Ulster. Ulster Business School ; University of Limerick. Department of Business Studies, 1996)
; 95 - PublicationTransformation in Central and Eastern Europe : economic theory in pratice : provision of private pension schemes in PolandThis paper considers the problems of the social security system in relation to pensions in Poland. It concludes that the system that prevailed up to recently had the capacity to cause the Social Insurance Fund to be permanently in deficit because of structural issues deriving from the conditions of the scheme, early retirement and recent increases in the dependency rate. Over the long term this deficit was likely to widen for demographic reasons. The recent reforms are unlikely to eleminate the deficit, so that the system may be driven to the private provision of pensions. This in turn raises fundamental property right issues. Finally, the issue of the private provision of pensions need to be seen in the light of the economy's need for domestic saving and financial markets and instruments to accelerate development.
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