Download or read book The Macroeconomics of Price Reform in Socialist Countries written by Simon Commander and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The macroeconomic consequences of adopting different price rules for adjusting controlled prices in systems where controlled and market prices coexist and the implications of varying the proportions of controlled and market prices.
Download or read book Economics of Transition written by Hüsnü Kızılyallı and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume a new forecasting and planning methodology is developed for transforming a socialist, closed and/or mixed economy to a free-market economy. The method assures macroeconomic equilibrium and interalia determines equilibrating (foreign) exchange, wages, rates and so on. Whereas the swith to a free-market system (based on international prices) is immediate, other reforms and restructuring can be made gradual, taking into account political, economic and social constraints. The methodology makes use of existing structures and capital stock during transition, as against complete destruction brought about under big bang approaches. The method gives a good estimate of effects of every reform measure taken, which implies superiority over other forecasting techniques.
Download or read book Crisis And Reform In Socialist Economies written by Peter Gey and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1987-06-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues in Socialist Economy Reform written by Stanley Fischer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Reform in Socialist Countries written by Ian Jeffries and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an assessment and evaluation of industrial reform in 14 countries. Topics covered in detail include the changing role of the industrial enterprise, the state and private sectors, privatization, pricing, foreign trade and direct foreign investment. Emphasis is placed on events since 1989, the year of revolution in Eastern Europe.
Download or read book Price Liberalization in a Reforming Socialist Economy written by Mr.Domenico Fanizza and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilateral search model of the commodity market is formulated to study the effects of liberalizing prices in a reforming socialist economy. The main result is that if the competitive structure of the economy is not quickly modified to eliminate supply rents, price liberalization may be accompanied by substantial output losses. A role for tax policy in limiting output losses is identified.
Download or read book Macroeconomic Reform in China written by Jiwei Lou and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is in the throes of two transitions: from a command economy to a market-based one and from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial one. So far, both transitions have been spectacularly successful. China is the fastest-growing economy in the world, with per capita incomes more than quadrupling since 1978, achieving in two generations what took other countries centuries. Although swift growth and structural change have resolved many problems, they also have created new challenges: employment insecurity, growing inequality, stubborn poverty, mounting environmental pressures, rising costs of food self-sufficiency, and periods of macroeconomic instability stemming from incomplete reforms. Unmet, these challenges could undermine the sustainability of growth, and Chinas promise could fade. China 2020, a seven-volume set, examines China's recent history, where it is today, and the path it should follow during the first two decades of the 21st century. The volume in the set entitled, Clear Water, Blue Skies: Chinas Environment in the New Century explores the relationship between economic growth and the environment. Chapters review the harmful effects of all forms of pollution and discuss ways of securing higher environmental living standards. Particular attention is given to urban areas and the impact of pollution on health conditions.
Download or read book Exchange Rate and the Price Level in Socialist Economies written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-05-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper examines how the evolution from a classical centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented system will enhance the linkage between the exchange rate and the domestic price level. However, during the transition--as the economy continues to be predominantly state-owned, the inherited production structure is only gradually modified, capital and labor mobility are still relatively low and financial discipline is less-than-complete--the elasticity of the domestic price level with respect to a change in the exchange rate, or, to a change in world market prices, may still be lower than in an otherwise comparable market economy.
Download or read book Economics of Socialism written by J. Wilczynski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, Economics of Socialism covers all aspects of socialist economics: planning, profit, production and growth, investment, consumption, labor and land. The author then goes on to discuss pricing, money and banking, fiscal policy and control, and both domestic and foreign trade and international economic cooperation. The book is introduced by a background chapter on the socialist economic system, models of the socialist economy, the reforms, and the new socialist economics. It ends with a singularly objective comparison of socialist and capitalist economies and seeks to answer the question of whether the two systems are indeed converging. The book is based on socialist sources published in the Eastern European countries, which Professor Wilczynski has studied in the original, and which he is able to interpret against a first-hand knowledge of the countries concerned. He also provides a considerable apparatus which will be useful to students: a full glossary of socialist economic terms and extensive references for further reading in English. This is an interesting historical reference work for scholars and researchers of Soviet economics and Russian economics.
Download or read book The Labor Market and the Transition of Socialist Economies written by Milan Vodopivec and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One challenge of the transition of socialist economies to multiparty democracy and a market economy will be to reallocate labor while minimizing the social costs of unemployment. Vodopivec identifies the key issues of labor reform and makes policy recommendations.
Download or read book Socialist Economic Development and Reforms written by J. Wilczynski and published by Springer. This book was released on 1972-06-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Reform in Socialist Countries written by Peter T. Knight and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1950s, most countries that adopted Soviet-style central planning have attempted to reform this system. Certain commonalities stand out: a thrust toward increasing the autonomy of enterprises or subnational entitites in determining investments, wages, hiring, input purchase, product mix, and the conduct of foreign trade; reliance on the price system and financial mechanisms to guide enterprise decision making; linking earnings of managers and workers more closely to enterprise and individual performance; and recognition of a constructive role for the private sector. At the same time they have considered reform, however, these centrally planned economies have been remarkably resistant to change. Experience suggests that the success of reform depends largely on the strength of political support, the comprehensiveness and internal consistency of the reforms, the length of time they are pursued without interruption, and the availability of some economic slack. Case histories of reform in Romania, China, Hungary, and Yugoslavia are included.
Download or read book Economic Reforms in the Socialist World written by Stanislaw,etc, Gomulka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Socialist countries now account for about a quarter of the world economy, about a third of the world population and about half the world military power. What happens in those countries is therefore par excellence of importance to all of us. This book is an outcome of a Conference on Economic Systems and Reforms in a Changing World, held in Seoul in September 1987. The Conference was significant in several respects. Foremost was the fact that this was probably the first such meeting of scholars from both socialist and non-socialist countries held to discuss socialist economic reforms worldwide.
Download or read book Planning and Profits in Socialist Economies written by Jean-Charles Asselain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of economic reforms throughout Eastern Europe covers the history of attempts at decentralization. The book: * Describes the centralized model and compares its requirements with the realities of socialist countries * Discusses the economic policies of the post-Stalinist period * Examines the origin of the reforms which began in 1956, culminating in the Soviet economic reform of 1965 and the rehabilitation of profit. Countries covered include the former USSR, the former East Germany and Hungary.
Download or read book The Socialist Price Mechanism written by Alan Abouchar and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of papers presented at a 1974 symposium on the socialist price mechanism held at the University of Toronto. The symposium examined the way socialist price concepts and price relationships serve such functions as measurement, allocation, and income distribution.
Download or read book Socialist Price Theory and Price Policy written by Béla Csikós Nagy and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the socialist economic theory of prices and price policy - gives an account of the problems of socialist pricing in the context of its practical application as evolved in the European socialist countries, etc. References and statistical tables.
Download or read book Macroeconomic Adjustment Stabilization and Growth in Reforming Socialist Economies written by Andrés Solimano and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper develops simple models, reviews empirical evidence, and discusses policy issues relevant for socialist economies undergoing a process of economic reform.
