The abandonment of central planning led to considerable output declines in countries of the firmer Soviet-bloc. The magnitude and length of the output declines, as well as recovery experiences have been very diverse. This paper describes and examines the impact of various detfirminants of output...

The abandonment of central planning led to considerable output declines in countries in the firmer soviet-bloc. The magnitude and length of the output declines, as well as recovery experiences have been very diverse. Various detfirminants of outpt growth have been identified in the literature....