Globalization and post-communist transition are currently two of the most important economic issues. Kolodko considers the links between them, and the way forward for post-socialist economies. Kolodko, former finance minister of Poland, considers the links between issues of globalization and post-communist transition, the two most important economic features of the turn of the century. He discusses the pattern of economic growth and contraction of the past fifty years, and reviews the options for the next half century. He accounts for the severity of the transitional recession in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as a result of both the legacies of the past and current policy mistakes, but demonstrates how structural reforms and gradual institutional building have enabled some post-socialist economies to recover. He proposes that, within the wider context of globalization, several of these emerging market economies will be able to catch up with the more advanced industrial countries, but emphasizes the need for quality growth policies and continuing coordination between development strategies and efforts toward structural reform. Grzegorz W. Kolodko is John C. Evans Professor in European Studies at the University of Rochester, and Director of TIGER -- Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research -- at the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management [WSPiZ].

About the Author
GRZEGORZ W. KOLODKO is John C. Evans Professor in European Studies at the University of Rochester, and Director of TIGER - Transition, Integration and Globalization for Economic Research - at the Kozminski School of Business (WSPiZ) in Warsaw, Poland.


Book Information
ISBN 9781580460507
Author Grzegorz W. Kolodko
Format Hardback
Page Count 120
Imprint University of Rochester Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd