Transition From Socialist to Market Economies: Comparison of European and Asian Experiences

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: General Framework of Comparison......Page 22
1 Convergence and Divergence in Transformation: Comparison of Experiences of CEECs and China......Page 24
2 China’s Transition to a Market Economy: How Far Across the River?......Page 52
3 Two Reforms under Mono-Party Political System: The Hungarian NEM in the 1960s–70s and the Chinese Reform......Page 82
Part II: Ownership Reform and Privatization......Page 92
4 SOE Reform and Privatization in Transition: China in Comparative Perspective......Page 94
5 Vietnamese Gradualism in the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises: The First Phase of Doi Moi......Page 116
6 From Public to Private Savings: Decline of State Ownership in the Chinese Corporate Sector......Page 138
Part III: The Role of the State and Market in Transition......Page 158
7 The Social Safety Net in China......Page 160
8 The State and the Transformation of Economic Systems......Page 179
9 Can the Japan Inc. Model Be a Middle Course for Transition?: Industrial Policy and Postwar Economic Development of Japan......Page 203
10 Market and Political Justice in Postsocialist Poland......Page 226
Part IV: Lessons Beyond the First Decade of Transformation......Page 244
11 Facts and Lessons of Ten Years of Transformation in Central Europe......Page 246
12 Czech Republic 1990–2000: Lessons from the Economic and Political Transformation......Page 269
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