presents preliminary results from Poland's privatization experience. Part III identifies the anticipated and unanticipated … institutional and behavioral barriers to privatization in Poland. Part IV offers several lessons for other transition economies …Contrary to expectations and announcements of policy makers in transition economies, privatization has taken longer …

Piotr Kozarzewski and Maciej Bałtowski analyse the causes and manifestations of Poland's recent shift in economic … policy towards a more active role of the state, and use privatization policy as an example. The authors examine the effects … of the privatization policy and point to a large unfinished agenda in ownership transformation that has had an adverse …