Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe: Perspectives and Approaches

✍ Scribed by June G. Hopps, Demetrius S. Iatridis

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Central and Eastern European countries are facing the transition from central to market systems with different strategies and capacities. As the task of societal transformation is without precedent in world history, the massive economic restructuring has revealed the need for distributive justice and general well-being. As the editors and contributors to this volume point out, the monolithic preoccupation with economic restructuring in a market economics framework is implemented at the expense of social protection and security.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
1. A Global Approach to Privatization......Page 17
2. Privatization, Competition, and Structural Change in Eastern Europe......Page 40
3. Privatization and Reform of Public Enterprises......Page 51
4. Privatization in Estonia......Page 67
5. The Czech Republic’s Privatization Experience......Page 75
6. Economic Reforms in the Baltics: The Case of Lithuania......Page 87
7. The Concept of Mass Privatization in Poland......Page 99
8. Privatization in Romania: Present State and Perspectives......Page 110
9. Economic Perspectives on Privatization in Russia: 1990–1994......Page 118
10. Slovenia: A Case Study of the Challenges of Privatization......Page 136
11. The Privatization Process in Bulgaria......Page 148
12. Privatization and Restructuring in Croatia......Page 158
13. State and Market in Romanian Social Policy......Page 169
14. Corporate Interests and the Politics of Transition in Russia 1991–1994......Page 183
15. Privatization and Oligarchy in Post-Communist Bulgaria......Page 198
Conclusions......Page 209
Index......Page 213
About the Contributors......Page 221