Cookies?
Library Header Image
LSE Research Online LSE Library Services

Macroeconomic policies and achievements in transition economies, 1989-1999

Gomulka, Stanislaw (2000) Macroeconomic policies and achievements in transition economies, 1989-1999. CEPDP (475). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK. ISBN 075301419X

[img]
Preview
PDF
Download (132kB) | Preview

Abstract

The paper discusses the reasons for the observed variation in the sequencing, speed and content of reform policies, in the 1990s, among 25 post-socialist countries of Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. It argues that these differences, while considerable in the early 1990s, did not amount to as substantially different reform strategies as it was often claimed and, in any case, have for most countries narrowed down considerably in the second half of the 1990s. The transformational recession is interpreted to have been of the stagflation type, related largely to initial, pre-reform crisis conditions. The paper reviews macroeconomic policies and evaluates the progress which the 25 countries have made in terms of a set of criteria proposed for the purpose of such an evaluation, and it discusses the reasons which distinguish the more successful from the less successful. The potential contribution to growth of the technological convergence (catching-up) factor during the first half of the 21st century is also estimated for key transition economies.

Item Type: Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL: http://cep.lse.ac.uk
Additional Information: © 2000 Stanislaw Gomulka
Divisions: Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited: 30 Jul 2008 12:28
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 19:41
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/20160

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics