The purpose of the paper is to discuss the effects of WTO accession on policy-making and institutional reforms in transition countries. This is done by looking at the experience of those transition countries which are already Members of the WTO. We start by examining the effect of accession on...

We examine in this paper the effects of WTO Accession on policy-making and institutional reforms in transition countries. This is done by looking at the experience of those transition countries which are already Members of the WTO and/or which have recently acceded. We start by trying to...

The main aims of this contribution are threefold: (1) To identify the main problems and challenges of adjustment in transition economies in post-communist Europe; (2) To assess the success with which the transition economies have been able to address those challenges through domestic...