Download or read book Transition and Growth in Post-communist Countries written by Lucjan T. Orlowski and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1999, economists, World Bank and IMF officials, international bankers, and other architects of post-Communist economic policies gathered in Warsaw to congratulate themselves on the success of the economic plans they engineered a decade before. Consisting of papers and discussions from that conference, this book integrates theoretical and empirical analyses of the economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe. It considers factors like economic growth, stabilization, and the reformation of social safety nets. c. Book News Inc.