Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780367164492
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9780429694288
Content:
This second yearbook of The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies presents studies dealing with the economic situation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Its foreign trade analysis offers insights into the ongoing transition process from centrally planned to market-oriented systems
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One Reforms, Trade, and Trade Policy -- 1. Soviet Perestroika and Foreign Trade -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Main Institutional Changes in the Economy -- 3. Present Foreign Trade Regulations -- 4. Future Soviet Course Remains Uncertain -- 5. What Is the True Level of Soviet Indebtedness? -- 6. "Radicalization" of Reforms Envisaged? -- Notes -- 2. Bulgaria: Economic Reforms and GATT - Continuing Questions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The New Economic Mechanism and GATT Questions -- 3. The Proposed Foreign Exchange Mechanism and Its Problems -- 4. The Proposed Price Mechanism and Its Problems -- 5. Likely Impacts of Continued State Intervention and Domestic Monopoly on the Price System -- Notes -- 3. Czechoslovakia's Foreign Trade -- 1. The Role of Foreign Trade in the Economy -- 2. Foreign Trade Policy -- 3. Prospects -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- 4. Hungary's West Trade Policy -- 1. Economic Policy Towards the West -- 2. Main Projects in the Current Five-year Plan Involving Possible Western Cooperation -- 3. Economic Reforms -- Notes -- 5. CMEA Integration: Stagnation or a New Beginning? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A New Beginning for CMEA Integration? -- 3. Prospects for a Joint CMEA Market -- 4. Opening Up to the West -- 5. Implications for East-West Trade and for CMEA Integration -- Part Two Trade with the Soviet Union -- 6. Four Small Countries' Relations with the Soviet Union -- 1. Comparison of Major Elements of Economic Relations -- 2. The Beginning of a New Era? (1986-1987) -- 3. What Is to Be Done? -- Notes -- References -- 7. The Mechanism of Hungarian-Soviet Economic Relations -- 1. The Organizational System -- 2. System of Bilateral Quotas - the Basic Form of Foreign Trade -- 3. Attempts at Improving Foreign Trade Based on the Quota System
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14. Hard Currency Position of the CMEA Countries and Yugoslavia -- 1. The Development from Hard Currency Indebtedness to Debt Crisis -- 2. The Development of the Debt Crisis -- 3. The Debt Situation of Individual Countries -- Notes -- 15. Poland's Debt Situation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Need for Rescheduling Foreign Debt -- 3. The State of the Polish Economy in 1988/1989 -- 4. Perspectives -- Notes -- 16. Solving the Polish Debt Problem -- 1. General Preconditions -- 2. Speeding Up the Economic Reform -- 3. Regaining Equilibrium -- 4. The Strategy of Export-oriented Development -- Notes -- 17. Yugoslavia's Relations with International Financing Organizations -- 1. IMF and World Bank -- 2. Bank for International Settlements and European Investment Bank -- Notes -- About the Contributors
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4. The Hungarian Economic Control and Management System, and Hungarian-Soviet Economic Cooperation -- 5. Developments in 1986-1987 and Perspectives -- Notes -- References -- 8. Mechanism and Institutional System of the Finnish-Soviet Economic Relations -- 1. Formal Aspects of Regulation -- 2. The Rate of Exchange of the Clearing Ruble and the Logic of the Finnish Regulation of Finnish-Soviet Trade -- 3. Regulation of the Volume and Pattern of Trade -- 4. Duality of the Regulation: integration and isolation -- the Devaluation of the Ruble as an Alternative -- Notes -- References -- 9. Finnish-Soviet Economic Relations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political and Institutional Characteristics -- 3. Developments of Finnish-Soviet Trade since 1970 -- 4. Effects on Economic Development -- 5. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Part Three The Role of Technology -- 10. Information Technologies and Their Impact on East-West Relations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Gap in Information Technologies between East and West -- 3. Brief Assessment of Reform Limits and Likely Socio-economic Outcomes -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 11. Export Control Reform and Western Security -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Workings of the Export Control System -- 3. Issues of National Security -- 4. Issues of Effectiveness -- 5. Elements of Reform -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12. A Note on Austria's Policies on Trade and Technology Transfer to the CMEA Countries -- 13. Austria's and Other Western Countries' Performance in High Technology Exports to the East -- 1. General Aspects -- 2. Measuring High Tech Flows -- 3. Austria's Position in High Tech World Trade -- 4. Austria's Position in High Tech Trade with the East -- 5. Details of Austria's High Tech Trade with the East -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- Part Four Foreign Debt
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Print version FriedlAnder, Michael Foreign Trade in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2019 ISBN 9780367164492
Language:
English
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