ABSTRACT
The range of experience in the monitoring and control of privatization reported here is extremely wide. The Czech, Slovak and Polish Republics reveal carefully planned programmes. East Germany is in a category on its own, with many inestimable advantages, and holds lessons for the others. Russia is careering down a path seemingly blindfold: where it will end up is very unpredictable. China, which can now be called a ‘former centrally-planned economy’ is also-as in so many other respects-in a category on its own.
