25 Years of Reforms in Ex-Communist Countries : Fast and Extensive Reforms Led to Higher Growth and More Political Freedom

The transition from socialism to the market economy produced a divide between those who advocated rapid, or “big-bang” reforms, and those who advocated a gradual approach. More than 25 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, providing ample empirical data to test those approaches. Evidence shows that early and rapid reformers by far outperformed gradual reformers, both on economic measures such as GDP per capita and on social indicators such as the United Nations Human Development Index

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Havrylyshyn, Oleh
Other Persons:	Meng, Xiaofan (contributor) ; Tupy, Marian (contributor)
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Wirtschaftsreform \| Economic reform \| Freiheit \| Freedom \| Politische Reform \| Political reform \| Reform \| Systemtransformation \| Economic transition \| Transformationsstaaten \| Transition countries