the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but … important in explaining the growth of the transition countries in the years since the end of the Cold War. In the mid 90s a …

workforce education should promote better management, and ultimately faster economic growth …

policies and structural reforms, particularly privatization, contributed to the growth recovery. We also conclude that the … faster is the speed of reforms, the quicker is the recovery and the higher is growth …

Privatization of state assets is an essential step to the creation of a viable private sector in the formerly socialist … privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several … East European countries, but privatization of large firms has been slow, with most success to date in Hungary …