Post-Communist Transition:
Subtitle: The Thorny Road (Rochester Studies in Central Europe)
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781580460576
Subjects: Political economy; Transitional economies; c 1990 to c 2000; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Development - Economic Development; Europe - General; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political Science / History & Theory; History & Theory - General; 1990-; Economic policy; Poland; Post-Communism; Privatization
Description: "Post-Communist Transition: The Thorny Road treats the historical endeavor to transform state-controlled economies to new institutional arrangements of free market economies. This ongoing transition is an indispensable part of globalization.

The recession created by the transition has lasted much longer than expected, contraction was deeper than earlier assumed, and the recovery was not - and in several cases still is not - as smooth as envisioned by both the relevant governments and international organizations. Instead of recovery and robust growth, the lasting recession has turned out to be the Great Transitional Depression, continuing in several countries over the entire decade of the 1990s. It is important that the effects have been felt most severely in the two countries with the largest economies - Russia and Ukraine.

The author examines the underlying roots of these processes, especially from the viewpoint of policy options for the future and their political and technical restraints."--BOOK JACKET.