Comparative Economic Studies articles from September 2000

Comparative Economic Studies archives from September 2000

Economic Reform, Private Sector Development, and the Business Environment in Viet Nam.
September 22, 2000... I. Introduction A central issue in market/economic reform in former centrally-planned economies is the extent to which the market is enabled to play its role in promoting productive and allocative efficiency and thereby to influence the...

Internal Liberalization as a Barrier To Export-led Recovery in Central European Countries Preparing For EU Accession.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... I. Introduction The EU's Agenda 2000 allows for the Union's eastern enlargement, for which ten Central and East European countries have applied so far: the seven current CEFTA members (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,...

Anticipatory Ownership Reform Driven by Competition: China's Township-Village and Private Enterprises in the 1990s.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... 1. Introduction Since 1992, China's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in all sectors of the state, township-village, and private have conducted a series of radical and successful reforms of their ownership and governance...

The Changing Role of Money in China and Its Implications.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Introduction Empirical studies invariably find an intricate link between indicators of financial sector development and economic growth. The faster the deepening of the financial sector, the higher the growth rate of the economy. Financial...

Hunting for the Central Asian Tiger.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Imagine a country in Asia which until quite recently was ruled "very firmly" by an imperial power. "However unpleasant the experience was for the people," foreign rule left the country "with a major accumulation of human and physical capital...

From Shock to Therapy. The Political Economy of Postsocialist Transformation.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Grzegorz W. Kolodko. 2000. From Shock to Therapy. The Political Economy of Postsocialist Transformation. UNU/WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford University Press. XII + 457 pages. Shock Therapy Versus Gradualism Ten Years Down...

The grabbing hand -- government pathologies and their cures.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny, eds. 1998. The grabbing hand -- government pathologies and their cures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, x + 278 pp., index, hb, $39.95. This is a collection of essays written by the two...

The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st, Century.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jeff Gates. 1998. The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st, Century. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-32808-9. Markets have triumphed over central planning, capitalism over socialism. But does capitalism have to mean that...