More than fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many issues regarding the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy are still being debated. This book presents an evaluation of the transition in Central Eastern Europe, and focuses on the socialist legacy, the...

This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk...

When it seems that everything or nearly everything has been said about the prerequisites and prospects of economic growth – in the Polish context, too (Kolodko 2002b and 2002c; Noga 2004) – it is worthwhile to revisit certain aspects of this phenomenon, which is of vital importance for the...