Economic Liberalization and Inter-Regional Trade

1995 ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Robert T. Green
Keyword(s):  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
Regional Trade

Concatenation of Circumstances or Historical Regularity?

2009 ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Transition Economies ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Shock Therapy ◽  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Government Failure ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Optimal Policies ◽  
Cis Countries

Why have many transition economies succeeded by pursuing policies which are so different from the radical economic liberalization (shock therapy) that is normally credited for the economic success of countries of Central Europe? First, optimal policies are context dependent, they are specific for each stage of development and what worked in Slovenia cannot be expected to work in Mongolia. Second, even for the countries with the same level of development reforms that are necessary to stimulate growth are different; they depend on the previous history and on the path chosen. The reduction of government expenditure as a share of GDP did not undermine significantly the institutional capacity of the state in China, but in Russia and other CIS countries it turned out to be ruinous. The art of the policymaker is to create markets without causing government failure, as happened in many CIS countries.

Lake Kivu Regional Trade in the nineteenth Century

1980 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Newbury
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Regional Trade ◽  
Lake Kivu
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