Economic transformation in emerging countries
Subtitle: the role of investment, trade, and finance
By: edited by Farok J. Contractor.
Contributors: Contractor, Farok J.; International Trade and Finance Association. Conference
Series: Series in international business and economics
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Finance -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Financial institutions -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Investments, Foreign -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Foreign exchange -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Capital market -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Technology transfer -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Decommunization -- Case studies -- Congresses.; Privatization -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Developing countries -- Commercial policy -- Congresses.
Description: This book deals with one of the great dramas of our day, the transformation of countries from economic backwardness, or a socialist somnolence, into greater efficiency and participation in the invigorating currents of international trade and investment. This book is about building market institutions and about the struggle to shed the institutional baggage of the past. It is about new 'openings'.

It is about liberalization of economic policies, about relaxing controls, and welcoming the influx of foreign capital and goods. Above all, the underlying theme of this book is the search for appropriate government policies, on issues vital to emerging nations (defined here as developing nations and former communist bloc countries), such as exchange rate management, acquisition of technology, privatization, capital flows, trade and direct investment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Mainly selections fron papers initially presented at the International Trade and Finance Association conference in San Diego in 1996"--Pref.