Restructuring the Baltic Economies - Disengaging Fifty Years of Integration with the USSR

The promise of a smooth systemic transformation in the Baltic states has been overshadowed by unforeseen obstacles. Speedy disengagement from the past, particularly from long established practices and inherited economic relationships, has proven more trying than originally anticipated. Compelling interview materials from the region's 115 leading government officials, including prime ministers, and academicians, highlight the major points of the text. Scholars in the United States and Europe, government officials, research and business institutes, and business trade associations will find this a thought provoking analysis of the progress and prospects of former Soviet republics and the lessons this provides for other republics of the former USSR.

List of contents

Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia: A Profile
Fifty Years of Soviet Annexation and Legacies
Baltic Economies in the 1980s
The Drive Toward Economic Independence: Currency Reform
Price Reform, Wages, and Income
Banking Reform and Monetary Policy
Budgetary Reform
Ownership Transformation: Property Restitution and Privatization
Foreign Investment
Foreign Trade: Past Constraints, Current Success
Industry and Agriculture
Perspectives on Economic Reform in the Baltic States
List of Interviewees
Bibliography
Index

About the author

RAPHAEL SHEN is Professor of Economics at the University of Detroit. He is the author of Economic Reform in Poland and Czechoslovakia (Praeger, 1993) and The Polish Economy (Praeger, 1992).

Product details

• Authors: Raphael Shen, Shen Raphael
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.1994
• EAN: 9780275947064
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94706-4
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, Baltic Sea, macroeconomics, Colonialism & imperialism, Political Economy, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, ECONOMICS: INTERNATIONAL