Author : Lucjan T. Orlowski
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN :
Examines the disintegration and the subsequent reform of Central and Eastern Europe's trade and payments as one of the most major systemic changes in world economic history.
Author : Roman Frydman
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9633864917
In Eastern Europe privatization is now a mass phenomenon. The authors propose a model of it by means of an illustration from the example of Poland, which envisages the free provision of shares in formerly public undertakings to employees and consumers, and the provision of corporate finance from foreign intermediaries. One danger that emerges is that of bureaucratization. On the broader canvas, mass privatization implies the reform of the whole system, the creation of a suitable economic infrastructure for a market economy and the institutions of corporate governance. The authors point out the need for a delicate balance between evolution - which may be too slow - and design - which brings the risk of more government involvement than it is able to manage. A chapter originating as a European Bank working paper explores the banking implications of setting up a totally new financial sector with interlocking classes of assets. The economic effects merge into politics as the role of the state is investigated. Teachers and graduate students of public/private sector economies, East European affairs; advisers to bankers or commercial companies with Eastern European interests.
Author : Alan H. Gelb
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : H. Gabrisch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 1999-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230502474
What will joining the EU mean for the new Eastern member states and their economies? This book offers a detailed study of the macroeconomic and structural adjustment burden. It envisages a real currency appreciation stemming from price convergence, capital inflows and weak structural change. The widespread belief that an Eastern enlargement of the Union would be overwhelmingly to the detriment of the present EU (budgetary costs, locational decisions, trade deficits) is rejected. The authors discuss the lack of competitiveness of Eastern countries and their need for structural adjustments (in the financial sector, in agriculture, and in manufacturing) in order for them to survive and thrive in their new economic environment.
Author : Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 134923916X
The mainstream view of the way in which best to transform the communist economies was that there should be a rapid transition to a free market economy and political democracy. The articles in this book challenge this view. They do so from the standpoint of economic and political theory, and from an evaluation of the comparative experience of different reforming countries in Europe and Asia. This book represents the first systematic attempt to try to explain the dramatic contrast in outcome between reforming countries that have pursued comprehensive system reform and those that have pursued cautious, experimental strategies.
Author : Paul Marer
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2021-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781646794973
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Author : Michael A. Landesmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 1995-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521480857
This book examines the reorientation of foreign trade and industrial restructuring in Eastern Europe.
Author : Paul J.J. Welfens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642581404
Socialist economies in Eastern Europe have collapsed and em- barked upon market-oriented reforms. The causes of the demise of centrally planned economies are analyzed and the basic challenges of systemic tranformation discussed. Negative income and wealth effects as well as distribution issues make adjustment extremely difficult. The fundamental roles of privatization and foreign investment are adressed. Foreign economic liberalization is considered to be of centralimportance for a growth-oriented adjustment path in a stage of conflict-prone policy and options. Politico-economic aspects of the new European developments in addition to North-South issues are analyzed. Difficult choices await decison-makers in economic policy and the business community in Eastern Europe and in leading market economies.
Author : F. E. Ian Hamilton
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9280811053
Annotation This volume is one in a series initiated by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies on the inter-relationship between globalisation and urban transformation. It identifies and describes the inter- and intra-urban transformations of Central and Eastern European cities and considers their pre-1945 historic legacies, the socialist period, and their contemporary transition towards market oriented and democratic systems. The dramatic changes since 1989 including the collapse of Communist ideology, the break-up of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the end of the Cold War and the impact of globalisation and European integration, have reconfigured this region and affected their re-integration into European and global networks. This book first examines the similarities and differences between significant Central and Eastern European cities, comparing the differing patterns of historical context and socialist legacies before 1990, and the impacts of internal and external forces on re-shaping these cities and their paths of transformation since 1990. It also examines the role of contemporary planning within the overall development of Central and Eastern European cities. The conclusion demonstrates the similarities and differences between Central and Eastern European cities and their re-integration into global networks.
