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Transforming The Post-Socialist Economies: Patterns and Paradoxes

In: Catching Up And Falling Behind Post-Communist Transformation in Historical Perspective

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  • David A Dyker

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It would be odd, indeed, if the economic experience of the countries of Central-East Europe (CEE), the Balkans and the former Soviet Union in the period since the collapse of communism were significantly different from that of other groups of economies in dynamic phases of development. It would be particularly odd if countries that had gone through a sustained and increasingly profound structural crisis in the last decades of communism did not encounter equally profound structural challenges in the initial period of transition. And it would be scarcely credible that these challenges could be met without engendering a whole gamut of tensions and contradictions, economic, social and political. That, in a nutshell, is the theme of this book — the pain and the gain from transformation, and the complex pattern of interaction between them…

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  • David A Dyker, 2004. "Transforming The Post-Socialist Economies: Patterns and Paradoxes," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Catching Up And Falling Behind Post-Communist Transformation in Historical Perspective, chapter 1, pages 3-21, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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