Discusses the impact of structural transformation in the industrial sector and regional integration on labour market issues in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Presents the experiences, strategies and problems, and particularly its social impact relating to reforms in the port of Veracruz, Mexico.

Describes the experiences, strategies adopted, and the problems encountered with regard to reforms in the Argentinean port of Buenos-Aires.

Discusses the reorganization of the shop-floor into team-based production units at two American mechanical engineering firms.

This paper examines problems of entry, exit and competition in Ukrainian product markets. It finds that Ukraine still has too little of all three, and that exit mechanisms, in particular, function poorly. Since impediments to entry and exit are largely the product of excessive and ill...

This paper examines the development of Russian industry in comparison with that of Ukrainian industry during 1995–2004 in an effort to ascertain to what extent, if any, Russian manufacturing showed signs of succumbing to ‘Dutch disease’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with...

Based on a survey of 16 enterprises privatized between 1991 and 1994.