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Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition (Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition, 19)

By Ian Jeffries

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0415236711, 9780415236713, 9780203244654
Open Library ID
OL7487809M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1378005 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
448\455
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Following on from Jeffries' 2001 Economies in Transition: A Guide to China, Cuba, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, this comprehensive survey of economic and political change focuses on the countries of Eastern Europe. Jeffries also discusses the general issues involved in economic transition, including `big bang'/'shock therapy', gradualism, China as an economic model and various schemes of privatization. The book examines Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Analysing major political and economic events in these countries from the mid-1990s to the present.

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