ABSTRACT
This book addresses the policy questions surrounding the challenge of transforming eastern European economies from their planned, administrative past to vibrant market-based entities.
Jozef van Brabant considers in turn, the wider set of challenges facing these economies - stabilization, privatization, liberalization, institution building, and developing and maintaining the sociopolitical consensus - before examining the evolving role of the state.
Using concrete examples from the eastern European countries throughout, including the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, this work systematically examines, in a society-wide context, the initial conditions of transformation, the policy tasks ahead and the manner in which policies have been pursued.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part |122 pages
History, Starting Conditions, and Transformation Tasks
chapter |41 pages
Historical Backdrop
chapter |41 pages
Reform Tinkering and the Starting Conditions of Transition
chapter |38 pages
The Market Economy and the Transformation Agenda
part |240 pages
Components of the Transformation Agenda
chapter |36 pages
Stabilization As an Early Policy Task
chapter |33 pages
Internal and External Liberalization
chapter |39 pages
Privatization and the Market Economy
chapter |49 pages
The Role of Institutions in a Market Economy
chapter |45 pages
Transformation and the Sociopolitical Consensus
chapter |36 pages
The Evolving Role of the State During Transformation
part |120 pages
Toward Sustainable Growth and global Integration