ABSTRACT
The Solidarity-led government which came into power in Poland in Autumn 1989 faced two enormous tasks. First, to stabilize an economy prone to hyperflation. Second, to replace a crumbling command system in favour of a market mechanism, in a country whose market institutions had been destroyed under forty years of communist rule. This book recounts the events of this period and the course taken by the new government, and analyzes the significance of this for the transition process in Poland and elsewhere.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |59 pages
The Transition Process: An Overview
part |63 pages
Macroeconomic Issues
part |88 pages
Structural Problems
part |38 pages
Social Issues