Problems of Economic and Political Transformation in the BalkansIan Jeffries Psychology Press, 1996 - 199 pages World-class scholars have come together for this volume to provide an authoritative assessment of the problems of transformation in the Balkan countries. Most writing to date on economic transition in the former Communist economies of Europe has concentrated on the generally more successful countries of Central Europe, especially the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The importance of political factors in the economics of transition is also a relatively neglected area of research. The book contains both general chapters and country-specific chapters (Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the former Yugoslavia) and covers topics in both politics and economics. Contributors include academics and government advisers working in Eastern Europe. |
Contents
Transition to Underdevelopment? | 13 |
the Emergence of a Pluralist Party | 33 |
Economic Change in Bulgaria since the Fall | 45 |
Problems of the Transition in Albania 199094 | 63 |
The Regional Effects of Economic | 83 |
Problems of the Transition to a Market | 111 |
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