Free enterprise moves East
Subtitle: doing business from Prague to Vladivostok
By: Carter Henderson.
Contributors: International Center for Economic Growth.
Publisher: ICS Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Free enterprise -- Europe, Eastern -- Case studies.; Free enterprise -- Former Soviet republics -- Case studies.; Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 1989-; Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions.
Description: In Free Enterprise Moves East: Doing Business from Prague to Vladivostok, former Wall Street Journal London bureau chief and front-page editor Carter Henderson provides an auspicious firsthand account of the triumph of market economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

As more than 400 million hungry consumers who need everything, especially peace, emerge from the wreckage of communism, Henderson alerts eager entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives, management consultants or anyone simply concerned with foreign affairs to the opportunities and pitfalls for businesses of all sizes struggling to thrive in the new free markets of formerly communist countries.

Between Prague and Vladivostok, he covers these markets from the vibrantly growing Czech, Hungarian, and Polish economies; through struggling Romania, Albania, and Bulgaria to the once agriculturally rich but now seriously troubled Ukraine; and on to Russia, mired in problems ranging from runaway crime to environmental ruin while its people labor to build a viable new capitalistic economy; further east to oil-rich Kazakhstan; and finally to economically devastated Georgia and its impoverished neighbors.

Through dozens of personal and compelling stories from Henderson's recent travels throughout the region, Free Enterprise Moves East tells how entrepreneurs are changing the face of the former Eastern bloc countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-273) and index.
"A publication of the International Center for Economic Growth."