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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One The Current State of Economic Transformation; 1. Shared Aspirations, Diverging Results; 1. Introduction; 2. GDP Estimates for 1992; 3. Production; 4. Domestic Absorption; 5. Employment; 6. Inflation; 7. Budget; 8. Foreign Trade; 9. Western Trade With the East; 10. Foreign Debt; 11. Foreign Direct Investment; 12. Privatization and Financial Sector Reform; 13. Outlook for 1993; 2. Frictions in the Economic Transformation of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland; 1. Introduction
  • 2. General Issues of Transformation3. Liberalization Policies; 4. Labor Market Policy; 5. Transformation of the Tax System; 6. Reforming the Enterprise Structure; 7. Transformation of the Financial and Banking System; 8. Conclusions; 3. Foreign Trade Liberalization During the Transition to a Market Economy; 1. Introduction; 2. Trade Liberalization: A General Discussion; 3. Benefits From Trade Liberalization; 4. Trade Liberalization in CITs; 5. Trade Liberalization in Poland; 6. The Optimum Pattern of Trade Liberalization During Transition
  • Part Two Fiscal and Industrial Policy During Transformation4. Fiscal Policy and Effective Demand During Transformation; 1. Introduction; 2. Budget Deficit and Aggregate Demand; 3. Deficit Spending and Inflation; 4. Deficit Spending and Crowding Out; 5. Budget Balance as a Destabilizing Factor; 5. Industrial Policy and the Transition in East-Central Europe; 1. Introduction; 2. The Setting for Industrial Policies in the Transition; 3. The Fundamental ""Stock-flow"" Problem in the Transition; 4. Macroeconomic Policies Boycotting Industrial Restructuring
  • 5. Methods of Industrial Policy for the Transition6. Industrial Policy as a Means to Change State-Administrative Behavior; 7. The Budgetary Predicament and the Reorganization of Large State-owned Enterprises (SOEs); 8. Export Orientation as a Means to Recapture the Domestic Market; 9. Areas of Industrial Policy; 10. Conclusion; 6. Industrial Policies for Countries in Transition?; 1. Introduction and Summary; 2. Industry in the Transition Economy; 3. Industrial Enterprises: Obstacle or Driving Force of Transition?; 4. Support for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
  • 5. Safeguards for Industry and ""Fair Trade6. Renewal of Industries; Part Three New Countries on the Map; 7. The Separation of Czechoslovakia; 1 . Political Situation After the Elections of June 1992; 2. Economic Standing; 3. The Economic Consequences of Separation; 4. The Schedule of Separation; 5. Chances of Integration of Both States Into Western Europe; 8. Yugoslavia's Successors; 1. Introduction; 2. Slovenia; 3. Croatia; 4. Serbia; 9. Russia's Attempted Stabilization Fails; 1 . The Economic Situation in Late 1992; 2. Failed Financial Stabilization; 3. Deteriorating Trade Balance