Kumssa, Asfaw; Jones, John F. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 1/2/3, pp. 194-210
Transition from a centrally planned to a free market economy has its social costs. These range from loss or diminution of a social welfare net to widespread unemployment. This is true of Asian countries adopting a gradualist approach to the free market, African countries forced by the IMF into...