List of Figures List of Tables - Notes on the Contributors - Preface - List of Acronyms - PART 1: INTRODUCTION - The Move to the Market; P.Cook & F.Nixson - PART 2: THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET: SOME THEORETICAL ISSUES - Alternative Possibilities for Post-Communist Economies; P.Devine - Transition to the Market: Some Implications for Human Resource Development; D.Elson - Institutional Obstacles to Marketisation in Post- Socialist Economies;M.Yamin & S.Batstone - PART 3: EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE - Economic Transformation in East and Central Europe: An Overview; P.Lawrence - The Impact of Economic Reform in East and Central Europe on Developing Countries; M.Shafaeddin - PART 4: CENTRAL, EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea: The Reluctant Reformer; F.Nixson & P.Collins - Lessons of Trade Policy and Economic Reform in China; A.MacBean - The Evolution of Chinese Foreign Investment Policy; L.Zhang & J.Thoburn - Mongolia: the Painful Transition to a Market Economy; F.Nixson Privatisation andy Private Sector Development in a Transitional Economy: the Case of Myanmar;P.Cook - Perestroika in South East Asia: Industry and Trade in the Lao People's Democratic Republic; I.Livingstone - PART 5: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA - Mozambique: The Market and Transition; J.Weiss - Trade and Industry in Zimbabwe; T.Ndhlovu - Is the Market the Answer?; P.Leeson Index

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