The paper analyses the determinants of long-term economic performance of east European and CIS economies in two periods: 1960-1989 (the era of central planning) and 1990-2005 (the transition to the market economy system). Throughout the 1960s and 1970s economic growth in eastern Europe...

This paper dicusses possible approaches for improving the mobilization of domestic resources for development in the ECE emerging market economies, focusing on the interrelationship between domestic saving, capital accumulation and economic growth.