The Move to the Market? Trade and Industry Policy Reform in Transitional Economies

The Move to the Market? brings together recent contributions that critically review and examine the role that trade and industry policy reforms have played in the transitional economies. It relates trade and industry policy to the wider set of reforms being implemented as part of the process of moving from a predominantly centrally planned to a more market-oriented economy. The book highlights the different and complex patterns of development that are emerging between the transitional economies of Europe, Africa and Asia.

List of Figures List of Tables - Notes on the Contributors - Preface - List of Acronyms - PART 1: INTRODUCTION - The Move to the Market; P.Cook & F.Nixson - PART 2: THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET: SOME THEORETICAL ISSUES - Alternative Possibilities for Post-Communist Economies; P.Devine - Transition to the Market: Some Implications for Human Resource Development; D.Elson - Institutional Obstacles to Marketisation in Post- Socialist Economies;M.Yamin & S.Batstone - PART 3: EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE - Economic Transformation in East and Central Europe: An Overview; P.Lawrence - The Impact of Economic Reform in East and Central Europe on Developing Countries; M.Shafaeddin - PART 4: CENTRAL, EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea: The Reluctant Reformer; F.Nixson & P.Collins - Lessons of Trade Policy and Economic Reform in China; A.MacBean - The Evolution of Chinese Foreign Investment Policy; L.Zhang & J.Thoburn - Mongolia: the Painful Transition to a Market Economy; F.Nixson Privatisation andy Private Sector Development in a Transitional Economy: the Case of Myanmar;P.Cook - Perestroika in South East Asia: Industry and Trade in the Lao People's Democratic Republic; I.Livingstone - PART 5: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA - Mozambique: The Market and Transition; J.Weiss - Trade and Industry in Zimbabwe; T.Ndhlovu - Is the Market the Answer?; P.Leeson Index