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Economic Transition in Central Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

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  • © 2005

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  1. Tomasz Mickiewicz
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Part of the book series: Studies in Economic Transition (SET)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. What Happened?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Old Regime and the Opening Balance of Transition

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      Pages 3-25

    3. The Transition Programme: Interdependence between the Key Components

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      Pages 26-46

    4. Stabilization

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      Pages 47-63

    5. Privatization: The Trade-Offs between Speed, Efficiency and Distribution

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      Pages 64-82

    6. Unemployment Paths and Restructuring

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      Pages 83-96

  3. Why? New Empirical Results

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Post-Communist Recessions Re-Examined

      • Tomasz Mickiewicz
      Pages 99-118

    3. Liberalization and Public Finance

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      Pages 119-142

    4. The Order of Financial Liberalization

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      Pages 143-159

    5. Democracy and Reform

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      Pages 160-180

    6. Growth and Transition

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      Pages 181-196

    7. Final Remarks

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      Pages 197-198

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 199-214
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About this book

Fifteen years ago, twenty-seven countries in Europe and Central Asia embarked on their economic transition paths. For some, the outcome was a considerable success. Several others are still struggling to shed the inheritance of the past and to correct more recent policy mistakes. Why were post-Communist recessions so long in some countries and growth disappointing? Why was fiscal performance so different? Was democracy a factor, which facilitated reforms or rather slowed them down? This book discusses these questions in the context of new empirical evidence, including a critical examination of the main themes in the economics of transition literature.

About the author

TOMASZ MAREK MICKIEWICZ is a Professor of Comparative Economics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK. He serves on the editorial board of 'Post Communist Economies' and publishes on entrepreneurship, corporate governance and effects of privatisation in 'Lancet', 'Journal of Business Venturing', 'Emerging Markets Finance and Trade', "Europe Asia Studies', 'Economics of Transition' and others.

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