Comparative Economic Studies articles from September 1997

Comparative Economic Studies archives from September 1997

The political economy of private farming in Russia.
September 22, 1997... Introduction Since 1991, the Russian agricultural system has experienced significant change. In the post-Soviet period, these changes have affected food producers, food processors, and the food trade system. Agrarian and land...

Education and regional economic development in China: the case of Shanghai.
September 22, 1997... China is experiencing dramatic change in the structure of its economy -- from a planned to a market based system, and from a predominantly rural population to one that is becoming significantly more urban. Nowhere are these changes...

An alternative examination of intercountry income inequality and convergence.
September 22, 1997... Introduction There is a large and growing interest in income inequality in both developed countries and developing ones. Most works in this area examine the evolution of income distribution within particular countries or compare...

Education and economic development: evidence from China.
September 22, 1997... Until 1978 China was one of poorest countries in the world with a per capital real GDP of 379 yuan (around $200). Since the economic reform started in 1978, the economy has grown at an astonishing annual rate of nearly 10%. In 1994...

Varieties of Transition: the East European and East German Experience.
September 22, 1997... Although this book is presented as a self-contained volume, it is in fact a collection of essays written by the author (and some with a co-author) since the late 1980s. Most have previously been published in English and/or German....

Privatization - An Economic Analysis.
September 22, 1997... This book, completed in late 1987, was first issued in 1988 and has since gone through six printings of the original text. It is now being made available in a long overdue paperback edition. Since this book is a decade old, the...

The Bulgarian Economy in Transition.
September 22, 1997... The author of this book attempts to analyze the political economy of transformation of one of the interesting but neglected cases, namely Bulgaria. This is the second book published in the west on the post 1989 developments in this...