Comparative Economic Studies articles from March 1998

Comparative Economic Studies archives from March 1998

The political economy of Bulgaria's peculiar post-Communist business cycle.
March 22, 1998... Introduction Bulgaria's macroeconomic performance between the fall of communism and early 1997 was singularly poor. It is the only former Soviet satellite where governments of both left and right proved unable to achieve any real...

Economic reform in Haiti: past failures and future success?
March 22, 1998... In a recent survey of the experience of policy reform Dani Rodrik points to the need to understand the political economy of policy making.(1) Gradually, a consensus has emerged among development economists with respect to what constitutes an...

Success and failure of economic policies: the experience of Greece and Portugal.
March 22, 1998... Introduction A comparison between Greece and Portugal is particularly interesting since the two countries share common experiences. They are both small South European countries, belonging to the European Mediterranean "periphery", with...

Discussion: the political economy of reform failure and poor economic performance. (response to Michael L. Wyzan and others in this issue, p. 5)
March 22, 1998... The organizers of this symposium should be congratulated for putting together a series of papers that explore similar territory in three countries that have had serious economic problems in recent years. (I leave out Portugal here since the...

Macroeconomic Issues and Policies: The Case of Bangladesh.
March 22, 1998... Hossain, Akhtar. 1996. Macroeconomic Issues and Policies: The Case of Bangladesh. New Delhi, India: Sage Publications. For someone who knows absolutely nothing about Bangladesh, the book, Macroeconomic Issues and Policies, by Akhtar Hossain,...

Independent Slovenia: Origins, Movements, Prospects.
March 22, 1998... Jill Benderly and Evan Kraft, (eds). 1994. Independent Slovenia: Origins Movements, Prospects. New York: St. Martin's Press. This book presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the Slovenian transition to independence. Jill Benderly and...

Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe: The Battle of the Systems.
March 22, 1998... Story, Jonathan and Ingo Walter. 1997. Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe: the Battle of the Systems (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press), xiv + 337 pp., index, $25 pb. This volume, written jointly by a political scientist...