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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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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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Following German reunification in 1990, East Germany's centrally planned economy was abolished and replaced by West Germany's social market economy. Western Germany has since provided vast financial support to aid the transformation, and enable eastern Germany to catch-up with western Germany's...
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India is about to catch up with China and become another Asian miracle economy. Economic Reform in China and India examines …
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This book is a comprehensive, balanced and realistic assessment of China's financial reform program and future … financial liberalization, the authors examine the impact of financial reform on economic development in China during the reform … therefore, allow more informed future policy choices for both China and other developing and transitional countries …
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This book addresses a number of important topics and issues associated with China's economic transition, growth and … spillover effects of China's growth, to investigate the relationship between growth and business cycle, and to shed light on … China's growth prospects in the coming decade. In the context of growth, transition and globalization, the chapters also …
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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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This book explores the nature of the flexibility of Estonia's rapid growth, that enables it to swiftly seize opportunities and weather crises without undue cost. The distinguished cast of contributors draws upon detailed data on individual firms and households to explore the basis for Estonia's...
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(Nigeria, Mauritius and South Africa) and four in Asia (China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia) …Learning to innovate : information hardware sector in Asia and Africa -- The rapid rise of China -- Low value …
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The authors in this book regard the process of economic expansion as a non-homogeneous and multifaceted phenomenon which has deeply affected human welfare, and cultural, social and political change. The book is a bridge between the theorists (Rosenstein-Rodan, Lewis, Myrdal, and Hirschmann) who...
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