Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction; Part 1 History, Starting Conditions, and Transformation Tasks; Chapter 1 Historical Backdrop; Chapter 2 Reform Tinkering and the Starting Conditions of Transition; Chapter 3 The Market Economy and the Transformation Agenda; Part 2 Components of the Transformation Agenda; Chapter 4 Stabilization As an Early Policy Task; Chapter 5 Internal and External Liberalization; Chapter 6 Privatization and the Market Economy; Chapter 7 The Role of Institutions in a Market Economy; Chapter 8 Transformation and the Sociopolitical Consensus; Chapter 9 The Evolving Role of the State During Transformation; Part 3 Toward Sustainable Growth And global Integration; Chapter 10 Transformation and Integration into the World Economy; Chapter 11 Transformation and International Assistance; Chapter 12 Sustainability of the Transformation;