ABSTRACT
Slovenia is far out in front in this respect, but Vietnam is already being promoted as the Asia/Pacific region’s next tiger. Kazakhstan’s progress is more tentative, but can be expected to gain momentum by the end of the 1990s. Slovenia is approximately half the size of Switzerland, covering 20,251 square kilometers, and has a population of a little over two million. The idea of Slovenian nationalism is relatively new in the context of other European peoples. Slovenia’s adjustment process has not been without problems. The economy contracted sharply in 1991 and 1992, largely caused by the collapse of trade with the former Yugoslavia. In 1993 it contracted a further 2 percent. Slovenia has a number of other critical tiger advantages. Slovenia’s other tiger advantages include institution building that is supportive of the marketization process. The transformation of the Vietnamese economy in the 1990s has been long awaited by foreign investors and badly needed for the country’s population.
