share of services in GDP, employment, and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition … services policy reform are statistically significant explanatory variables for the post-1990 economic performance of transition …

Transition was never going to be easy, even with the highly promising long-run outlook. Not only was the process itself …

political economy explanation of why institution building has varied so much across transition economies. They identify … institution building during transition by influencing the political structure and process during the initial years. Their … governments are more likely to see former communists remain in power and to start the transition process with less open political …

, poverty-reducing growth depends heavily on the ability of the economy to generate jobs. During the early years of transition … post-transition economic growth and poverty reduction"--World Bank web site …

There has been no single magic formula for the success of the East Asian transition economies (Cambodia, China, Lao … that of transition economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Most of the trade policy problems that remain … in these East Asian economies appear to be the problems more of development than of transition …