Seventy years ago, three years after World War II, the bulk of the Hungarian manufacturing industry was taken over by the then ruling coalition government. This was the culminating point of a process of elite change, which started at the very beginning of 1945. It was perceived then by the...

In 1949, Soviet Union and some of its satellites created Comecon with the announced goal to facilitate economic cooperation between the socialist countries. The inefficiency of socialist systems affected the performances of Comecon members. However, the analysis of economic development from some...

There has always been a debate on the roles of government and market for economic growth and development. Economic development encompasses more than just growth; it seeks the betterment of the standard of living and higher Human Development Index. There is no single strategy that would be...

This paper presents a modified two-gap model and analyses the impact of international trade and domestic savings on the economic growth in the transition countries. The model indicates that economic growth is constrained by domestic savings when the domestic savings are relatively scarce,...

This study highlights the importance and explores the contributions of community capacity building (CCB) to achieving a sustainable tourism. Community capacity building is extensively recognized as a significant tourism development tool, which if implemented properly can contribute in community...

Seventy years ago, three years after World War II, the bulk of the Hungarian manufacturing industry was taken over by the then ruling coalition government. This was the culminating point of a process of elite change, which started at the very beginning of 1945. It was perceived then by the...

旧社会主義諸国の移行戦略を巡る議論は，いまもなお脈々と続いている。本稿は，その本流である急進主義対漸進主義論争に寄与した先行研究135...

Academic debate on a transition strategy for former socialist economies continues even a quarter century after the collapse of the communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In this paper, through an analytical survey of 137 preceding studies, we present an overall...

This paper seeks to lay out the strategy of China's developmental approach to transition--how the strategy was developed and why it has worked so well for China. It then goes on to answer the arguments of Sachs and Woo (1994, 1995, 1996) that China's approach to transition has no relevance to...

The paper lays out the strategy behind China's gradual approach to transition--how the it was developed and why it has worked so well for China. It goes on to answer the arguments of Sachs and Woo that the Chinese approach has no applicability to the nations of Eastern Europe and the former...