This paper examines the effects of the collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe on economic reform in developing countries within a framework earlier developed by Albert O. Hirschman (1964). It is shown that countries relying on help from Eastern Europe, socialist developing...

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between the structure of property rights and economic growth. Two aspects of property rights are taken into consideration: the degree to which property is state owned and the presence of arbitrary seizure of property. The variable measuring state...