Transition--The First Ten Years : Analysis and Lessons for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- Part 1 The First Decade in Transition -- How Did Transition Economies Perform? -- Explaining Variation in Output Performance -- Part 2 Policy and Institutional Challenges Ahead -- The Quest for Growth -- Discipline and Encouragement -- Imposing Discipline -- Extending Encouragement -- Privatization: Lessons and Agenda for the Future -- Supportive Social Policies -- Part 3 The Political Economy of Discipline and Encouragement -- The Winners and Losers from Discipline and Encouragement -- Classifying Political Systems in Transition -- Political Systems Influence the Choice of Economic Reforms -- Confronting the Political Challenge -- Selected Bibliographic Guide to the Political Economy of Transition -- References.