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2 - Reforms and Results of Transition

First Some Facts

from Part I - The Diverse Paths Taken in Transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2020

Oleh Havrylyshyn
Oleh Havrylyshyn
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa
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Summary

The vast amount of new data for transition countries since 1989 provides measurement not only of standard performance indicators like GDP, foreign investment, exports, poverty, income distribution, overall indices of well-being (the Human Development Index), democracy, and human freedom indicators, but also many new measures of governance, Rule of Law, corruption, market freedom, and ease of doing business. Many such indicators are used to trace the evolution of changes during transition and provide some insight into what transformation policies led to better outcomes. The main conclusions from such a statistical analysis are that countries that undertook early and more extensive economic reforms moving to a market economy generally performed much better on both economic and social indicators – and generally also in progress to more democratic societies.

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GDP in transitionTransition Progress IndexHuman Development Indexincome distributiondemocracy score
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Present at the Transition
An Inside Look at the Role of History, Politics, and Personalities in Post-Communist Countries
 , pp. 35 - 62
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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