ABSTRACT

Transition Economies and Foreign Trade makes the bold claim to have solved puzzles that have hindered the subject for years. By taking the distortions of the Communist era into consideration, Winiecki has explained the phenomenon of the decline in output and trade, as well as explaining the dual commodity nature of exports in the early transition p

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|33 pages

Successes of trade reorientation and trade expansion

An enterprise-level approach

chapter 4|24 pages

Institutions and foreign trade reorientation

How much impact upon performance?

chapter 5|19 pages

Post-transition foreign trade problems and prospects

The economics and political economy of accession