Transition and growth in post-communist countries
Subtitle: the ten-year experience
By: edited by Lucjan Orlowski.
Contributors: Orlowski, Lucjan T.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cheltenjam, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern; Public welfare -- Europe, Eastern; Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics; Public welfare -- Former Soviet republics; Europe, Eastern -- Economic policy -- 1989-; Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 1989-; Former Soviet republics -- Economic policy; Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Uneven reforms--unbalanced growth. 1. The; title: transition economies after ten years -- Stanley Fischer -- and -- Ratna Sahay -- 2.; title: Comments on Fischer and Sahay -- Lajos Bokros -- 3.; title: Ten years after : what is special about transition countries? -- Daniel Gros -- and -- Marc Suhrcke -- 4.; title: What are the chances of catching up with the European Union? -- Andrew M. Warner -- 5.; title: Growth convergence : a comment on Warner -- Stanislaw Gomulka -- 6.; title: Remarks on globalization, openness and macroeconomic stability in transition economies -- David Lipton -- Part II. Financial openness and approaches to monetary integration. 7.; title: Global integration of financial markets and its consequences for transition sconomies -- Marek Dąbrowski -- 8.; title: Unilateral adoption of the euro by EU applicant countries : the macroeconomic aspects -- Andrzej Bratkowski -- and -- Jacek Rostowski -- 9.; title: Central European economies in the aftermath of the Russian payments crisis -- Lucjan T. Orlowski -- Part III. Reforming social safety nets. 10.; title: Reforming welfare states in post-communist countries -- Nicholas Barr -- 11.; title: Welfare state reforms in post-communist countries : a comment on Barr -- Stanisława Golinowska -- 12.; title: Comment on Barr -- Stanisław Wellisz -- 13.; title: Restoring hope, rewarding work : pension reforms in post-communist economies -- Michal Rutkowski -- 14.; title: Do 'winners take all'? : a comment on Rutkowski -- Mikhail Dmitriev -- 15.; title: Pension reforms in transition economies- remarks and open questions : a comment on Rutkowski -- Winfried Schmähl -- Part IV. Political challenges of transition. 16.; title: Reflections of political and academic leaders of economic transformation-- Jacques de Larosiere-- ... [et al.].