Covers the period from 1989 to 1996.
This volume examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing an account of the changes which are shaking India today at the beginning of the 21st century. When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947, it…
Examines the orientation and outcome of economic policies in Greece, Spain and Portugal during the post-authoritarian period, 1975-95.
Privatizing Russia
by Shleifer,^, Andrei, Boycko, Maxim, Vishny, Robert W., (Robert Ward)
Privatizing Russia offers an inside look at one of the most remarkable reforms in recent history. Having started on the back burner of Russian politics in the fall of 1991, mass privatization was completed on July 1, 1994, with two thirds of Russian industry privately owned, a r…
Research papers, case studies on economic policy and economic conditions, during the 1970s and 1980s - examines economic growth, industrial growth, development policy, structural change, external debt problems, trade relations, trade policy, economic reforms, international divis…
The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China? examines the reassertion of state control over the Chinese economy, away from the private sector, with an additional focus on why this trend is impeding the country's potential for future economic growth"
China's economic development
by Brada, Josef C., WACHTEL, Paul, YANG, Dennis Tao
fromPalgrave Readers in Economics
This is a probing study of the interactions between ideological trends and economic reform in the era of Deng Xiaoping. It explores an important but frequently neglected issue in the contemporary study of China - the transformation from the orthodox anti-market doctrine into a m…
"The collapse of China is unthinkable. The consequences for its people - and for the people of the world - could be catastrophic. Three times larger than the United States, China has an economy that many predict will blossom into the world biggest by 2010. The county may be Amer…
"This is a study of the long-run evolution of the relationship between China and the world economy. The book presents an original interpretation of the country's socio-economic processes in the past 150 years, focusing on China's interaction with the expanding capitalist world e…
"China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens. The authors explore a range of reasons for the disparity and base their conclusions on strong empirical evidence--especially the 1996 survey conducted by the…
"Among the topics celebrated on these pages are the future of China's growth model ; the deepening crisis on the land ; the country's emerging class structure and the fate of its workers ; its commercial & high culture and the interactions between them ; the role of social movem…