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The essays in this volume describe, analyse and compare the achievements and the failures of societies that adopted market-based economies within a democratic polity after a long period of communist rule (Russia and Eastern Europe) or military authoritarianism (Latin America). Together, they...
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privatization * labour market and industrial policy, including an analysis of wage restraint and cost reduction * the prospects for …
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effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re …-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The authors explore these reforms along with the problems of China's state … China's WTO commitments. Drawing on wide-ranging case studies of enterprise reform, Becky Chiu and Mervyn Lewis combine …
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China analysts …
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This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a … international team of contributors, the book traces how privatization concepts have grown in application, and how they have spread … global regulation of markets / George Gilligan -- Conclusions : spreading the privatization family business / Graeme Hodge …
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Contents: Preface -- PART I A historic transformation: heterogeneity in CESEE in a changing global context -- 1 Looking back on 30 years of transition - and looking 30 years ahead / Robert Holzmann -- 2 1989: the year of the great ambivalence / Anton Pelinka -- 3 The price of unity: the...
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During the 1990s over two dozen countries in Europe and Asia underwent a transition from centrally planned to more market-oriented economies. In Constructing a Market Economy, Richard Pomfret reviews their diverse experiences and assesses the outcome of transition in each case. The book includes...
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Since 1986 Laos has been engaged in radical reform designed to transform its repressed socialist economy into a market economy open to international trade and investment. The Economics of Transition in Laos analyses the successes and failures of economic transition in the context of the...
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Research suggests that innovation and technological change are crucial for the economic recovery of the former centrally planned countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This book analyses the development of innovation systems and technology policy in this region from various perspectives,...
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