When communism fell in 1989, the question for most Eastern European countries was not whether to go to a market economy, but how to get there. Several years lat

Under free-market shock therapy, many economies of former socialist countries of Eastern Europe have declined. Why has there been so much stagnation, inflation,

This volume presents cases from a World Bank study of state-owned industrial firms in Poland, Hungary and the Czech and Slovak republics. Topics that are covere

Special attention is paid to the roles of corporate governance, technological integration, the role of environmental and regional policies and the reform of the