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Viet NamIn analyzing Viet Nam's recent economic adjustments, this paper attempts to distinguish events and policies that are properly assigned to the transition effort (defined as the process of increasing the market determination of economic outcomes) and...
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Underdevelopment, Transition and Reconstruction in Sub-Saharan AfricaReconstructing Africa's war damaged economies is an urgent task. This is especially so in a group of countries - Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique - which must also complete their economic and political transition from state...
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Decentralized Socialism and Macroeconomic StabilityUsing a survey of 300 state-owned enterprises (SOEs), we argue that the acceleration of inflation in China after 1984 was caused by the decentralization reforms in the state sector. These reforms allowed the SOEs to realize their innate tendencies to...
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The Informal Sector During Crisis and TransitionOne of the most notable phenomena during economic transition is the shrinkage of the public sector and expansion of the not working population, simultaneously with the expansion of both the formal and informal private sectors. We address the related...
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The Political Economy of Industrial Development in VietnamVietnam’s industrial development since doi moi is a success, but only a partial one. This paper provides a political economy account of Vietnam’s industrial growth since 1986. It shows that the key determinant of Vietnam’s industrial growth lies in...
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Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is Still KickingPart of Book Economies in Transition
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The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?Part of Book Economies in Transition
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The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist CountriesPart of Book Economies in Transition
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New Light on China's Rural ElitesPart of Book The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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New Light on China’s Rural ElitesThis paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China using household data for 1995 and 2002. We seek to understand the determinants of belonging to each of the three elite categories...
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Mozambique’s Elite – Finding its Way in a Globalized World and Returning to Old Development ModelsWhat makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique’s elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its...
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The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests that...
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Into the VoidTwenty years after the fall of the iron curtain—which for decades had separated East from West—most countries of Central and Eastern Europe are now members of the European Union; some have even adopted the euro. Nonetheless, these countries have also...
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The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-CommunismIn the former socialist redistributive economies, the transition to market economy and the conversion to private ownership followed different trajectories. The paper offers an overview on how a new class of grand bourgeoisie was formed in three...
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Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is still KickingOnly recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which dropped...
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Central Asia after Two Decades of IndependenceAfter becoming independent in 1991, the five Central Asian countries pursued differing transition paths from the defunct central planning. This paper analyses the connection between economic policies and performance during the 1990s and 2000s...
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The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist CountriesThe formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have experienced a remarkable demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now looks like...
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Transition in Southeast EuropeThe paper analyses the 20-year experience with transition in the SEE countries in a comparative framework, illustrating how these countries encountered difficulties in its implementation, despite having some of the best starting conditions in 1989 to...
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Varying Growth Trajectories of the West and the South: The Role of Inequality and Institutions
27 August 2014 Vladimir Popov Modern economic growth started in the West, not because of the efficiency of various capitalist institutions...
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Democratic People's Republic of KoreaPart of Book Poverty, Income Distribution and Well-Being in Asia during the Transition
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Transition and Social StructuresPart of Book Inequality and Social Structure During the Transition
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The Role of the State in Economic ChangeThe role of the state has occupied centre stage in the development of economics as an independent discipline and is one of the most contentious issues addressed by contemporary economists and political economists. The immediate post-war years saw a...
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