Product Description: The focus of this book is on economic and institutional modernization in the new Russia and Eastern Europe. Systemic transformation and economic catching-up process raise new theoretical and empirical issues as well as policy topics...read more

Product Description: Russia and many other transition countries are now facing the challenges of opening up, restructuring, and modernizing their economies, which requires addressing numerous institutional weaknesses and supply-side distortions. From a regional perspective, drawing on the experience of other reforming countries, the papers examine these issues...read more