The Economics of Transition

Ichiro IwasakiBusiness & Economics
The Economics of Transition

Author: Ichiro Iwasaki

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429559990

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 374

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In the last three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a vast amount of study looking at transforming the planned economy to a market economy from both theoretical and empirical aspects. This book provides an overview and insight into transition economies in the recent decades and looks at key economics topics from the so-called “transition strategy debate” to environmental reform. The book also includes an analytical review and meta-analysis of the existing literature. By integrating theoretical discussions and synthesizing empirical findings in a systematic manner, this book may help to enlighten the debate on the timing, speed, and policy sequence of economic transition. The book will particularly appeal to researchers, policy makers, other practitioners, and under- and post-graduate students who are interested in transition economies in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, and China. It aims to be read as an advanced reader.

Transition Economics

Gerard TurleyBusiness & Economics
Transition Economics

Author: Gerard Turley

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136909085

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 472

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Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems. Given the passage of time, Transition Economics: Two Decades On reviews and accounts for the outcomes in the so-called transition economies and, from an academic perspective, takes the reader through developments and issues in the twenty years of transition from plan to market. Treating its subject matter thematically, the book incorporates much of the transition economics literature and evidence that have evolved over the past two decades. In particular, the authors focus on the most important aspects of economic transition, including: The initial conditions at the outset of transition Paradigms and patterns of transition The main transition policies and economic reforms The performance of transition countries and firms The lessons from transition The textbook covers a wide range of both contemporary microeconomic and macroeconomic issues, in over thirty ex-socialist European and Asian countries, including Russia and China. Transition Economics: Two Decades On is more than just a book about a particular part of the world or the transformation that was experienced at a particular time in history. The authors believe that the study of the economics of transition gives the reader an insight into theories, policies, reforms, legacies, institutions, processes and lessons that have application and relevance, beyond the specific transition from plan to market, to other parts of the world and to other times in history.

Economic Transition in Central Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

T. MickiewiczBusiness & Economics
Economic Transition in Central Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Author: T. Mickiewicz

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230504349

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 214

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Fifteen years ago, twenty-seven countries in Europe and Central Asia embarked on their economic transition paths. For some, the outcome was a considerable success. Several others are still struggling to shed the inheritance of the past and to correct more recent policy mistakes. Why were post-Communist recessions so long in some countries and growth disappointing? Why was fiscal performance so different? Was democracy a factor, which facilitated reforms or rather slowed them down? This book discusses these questions in the context of new empirical evidence, including a critical examination of the main themes in the economics of transition literature.

The Economics of Transition in Laos

Yves BourdetLaos
The Economics of Transition in Laos

Author: Yves Bourdet

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: STANFORD:36105028634207

Category: Laos

Page: 200

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Since 1986 Laos has been engaged in radical reform designed to transform its repressed socialist economy into a market economy open to international trade and investment. The Economics of Transition in Laos analyses the successes and failures of economic transition in the context of the institutional and political constraints faced by the reform process. It focuses on the change from a socialist economic system to a market-orientated system, and the transfer from subsistence to market agriculture. Special attention is given to the integration of Laos into the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The author shows that this integration into ASEAN is likely to be an important determining factor in the transformation of Laos into a successful market economy. This authoritative book, the first of its kind, will prove essential reading to social scientists concerned with Southeast Asia, transition or development issues, and to all those interested in contemporary Indochina.

Understanding Economic Transitions

Berhanu AbegazPolitical Science
Understanding Economic Transitions

Author: Berhanu Abegaz

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783031215841

Category: Political Science

Page: 324

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Understanding Economic Transitions explains the genesis, operation, and transformation of the centrally-planned socialist economy, which figured prominently in the lives of billions of people in twentieth-century Europe and Asia. Just as importantly, the centrally-planned socialist economy’s demise coincided with the shift from nonindustrial to industrial economy (and de-industrialization in some cases) and the onset of ICT-driven globalization. Using theory, empirics, and selected country case studies, this book teases out the enduring lessons from the myriad and fraught pathways of transition from socialism to capitalism. Understanding Economic Transitions provides a self-contained, comprehensive, and authoritative treatment of modern economic systems. This textbook has four features of particular use to students: (i) Using the prism of comparative institutionalism, it melds theory and evidence to revisit the varieties of planned and market-driven systems today; (ii) It takes economic planning seriously in theory and practice (central, cooperative, or indicative) as the most prominent marker of the ever-changing boundaries between state and market; (iii) It focuses on the dynamics of systemic transition in formerly socialist countries by contextualizing them in terms of the whence (central planning), the how (modalities of transition), and the whither (illiberal or liberal capitalism) of politico-economic transformation; and (iv) It examines the profound impact on these structural processes of the post-1990 phase of economic globalization. With its clear, comprehensive content and useful pedagogical features, this textbook will prepare students to understand how economies transition and why.

Institutional Economics and Transition Economies

Wei Ge
Institutional Economics and Transition Economies

Author: Wei Ge

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:1290315112

Category:

Page: 18

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It is argued in literature that two schools of thoughts might have been most relevant and influential to the policy formation and implementation in transition economies, with distinguishable economic and social outcomes. While Russia and some countries in the Central and Eastern Europe have commonly been perceived as the subscribers to the Washington consensus, the transition practice in China is seen by some as a vindication of the evolutionary-institutionalist perspective. This study attempts to assess the validity of this latter argument and, on that basis, to raise some analytical issues which may warrant further scholarly investigations. These include the role of the government in transition economies, the characteristics of China's gradualist approach, the essence of an economic transition and the criteria for assessing its progress. For the benefit of a fruitful analysis, these issues need to be more carefully addressed.

The Successes and Failures of Economic Transition

H. GabrischBusiness & Economics
The Successes and Failures of Economic Transition

Author: H. Gabrisch

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230626584

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 187

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This book takes a macroeconomic approach to the issue of transformation from communist economies into market economies. At the centre of the analysis stands the role of the state and the definition within a dramatically changing environment. Particular emphasis is given to the emerging role of money and the financial sector.

The Economics of Transition in Laos

Yves BourdetBusiness & Economics
The Economics of Transition in Laos

Author: Yves Bourdet

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 178100871X

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 200

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'This book provides the reader with an intelligent and clear overview of the Lao economy in the past 20 years, and is the only book I know of dedicated to purely economic questions.' - Grant Evans, Journal of Agrarian Change

The Economics of Transition

Marie LavigneBusiness & Economics
The Economics of Transition

Author: Marie Lavigne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781349273133

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 352

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Substantially revised and updated the second edition of this highly acclaimed text is both a vital guide and a valuable critical analysis. The book provides a contemporary comparative approach to the process of transformation of the economies of Eastern Europe and Russia. Supplying a large amount of factual and statistical information it also includes consideration of recent progress in the areas of macro-economic-stabilisation, micro-economic restructuring and integration into the world economy.

The Economics of Transition

Egor Timurovich GaĭdarBusiness & Economics
The Economics of Transition

Author: Egor Timurovich Gaĭdar

Publisher: MIT Press

ISBN: 026207219X

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 1066

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This collection of essays discuss the economic policy problems that confront postcommunist countries. Most chapters focus on liberalization of the exchange rate and trade system, macroeconomic stabilization, and institutional reform.

Towards Market Economies

John Odling-SmeeBusiness & Economics
Towards Market Economies

Author: John Odling-Smee

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9780761873631

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 249

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The book is a personal account of the changes in the economies, politics and societies of former Soviet Union countries, and the role of the IMF in helping them make the transition from planned to market economies. From 1992 to 2003, the author was in charge of the IMF’s work on the fifteen countries that emerged from the former Soviet Union.

Direct Investment in Economies in Transition

Klaus MeyerInvestments, Foreign
Direct Investment in Economies in Transition

Author: Klaus Meyer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

ISBN: STANFORD:36105023471381

Category: Investments, Foreign

Page: 328

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Reviews the business environment and conditions facing the foreign investor in Central and Eastern Europe, and assesses exiting statistical and qualitative economic studies. The volume also critically examines transaction cost theory and the theory of the multinational firm under the conditions of economic transition. Pointing to a reorientation of research focusing on firms as organizations, the author challenges the theoretical foundations of current research. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR