This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the different effects of the economic crisis from 2008 across all transition economies with a testable framework that relates vulnerability to specific forms of development since 1989. The key to the framework is the identification of forms of...

The world financial crisis of 2008 affected transition economies (including Eastern Europe and CIS members) in different ways depending on their previous growth patterns and forms of international integration. The sources of diversity have often been overlooked in views of transition as...

This paper analyses the changing forms of international economic integration in Central Asia Republics (CARs) of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan from their emergence as independent states at the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union to the world financial...

The economic crisis of 2008, starting from the crisis in banking in the USA in 2008, affected economic and political development in varied ways around the world. This special issue covers the impact and policy responses in the former state socialist countries of central and eastern Europe and...

This paper analyses policy responses to the financial and economic crisis in the central east European countries. The crisis raised the profile of economic policy themes that relate to the role of taxation and state spending. The key policy differences related to public budgets and support for a...