Transition, the first ten years : analysis and lessons for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.

Foreword, ix -- Acknowledgments, xi -- Overview, viii -- Part 1. The first decade in transition, 1 -- 1. How did transition economies perform?, 3 -- 2. Explaining variation in output performance, 11 -- Part 2. Policy and institutional challenges ahead, 21 -- 3. The quest for growth, 23 -- 4. Discipline and encouragement, 33 -- 5. Imposing discipline, 53 -- 6. Extending encouragement, 59 -- 7. Privatization: lessons and agenda for the future, 71 -- 8. Supportive social policies, 81 -- Part 3. The political economy of discipline and encouragement, 89 -- 9. The winners and losers from discipline and encouragement, 91 -- 10. Classifying political systems in transition, 97 -- 11. Political systems influence the choice of economic reforms, 103 -- 12. Confronting the political challenge, 111 -- Selected bibliographic guide to the political economy of transition, 117 -- References, 125.