Economic Reforms in Centrally Planned Economies and their Impact on the Global Economy

by Jozef M. van Brabant

Overview

This volume focuses on the important issues raised by the recent economic reforms of the centrally planned economies of China, South-East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Participation in the international trade regime and how this may be affected by the economic reforms; implications of the reforms for economic relations with developing countries and development assistance performance; participation in international monetary and financial regimes and how this may be affected by economic reform; and the impact of economic reform on regional integration schemes are all analysed in depth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333558119
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/18/1991
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword - Preface - Explanatory Notes - Overview of the Centrally Planned Economies and International Economic Organizations; J.M.Van Brabant & C.Wittich - THE CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMIES IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS - Organized International Economic Co-operation after the Second World War; M.Lavigne - Evolution of External Trade and Payments of the European Centrally Planned Economies; J.E.Smolik - Evolution of External Trade and Payments of China, Mongolia and Vietnam; A.Orr - External Implications of Economic Reforms in the European Centrally Planned Economies; L.Csaba - China, Vietnam: Chronicle of Announced Reforms; N.H.Dong - THE CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMIES AND THE GLOBAL TRADE FRAMEWORK - Central Planning, Trade Policy Instruments and Centrally Planned Economies within the Framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; H.Matejka - Requirements for Full and Equal Participation of Planned Economies in the Global Trade Framework; J.M.van Brabant - Experiences of the Centrally Planned Economies in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; P.Pissulla - China's Economic Reform and its Implications for the International Trading System W.Jiahuang & S.Ziqing - THE CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMIES AND THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - Economic Reforms in Asia and Europe and Co-operation with Vietnam; V.Khoan - Reforms in the Centrally Planned Developed Economies and their Impact on Trade and Economic Relations with the Non-Centrally Planned Developing Economies; S.Chishti - Economic Reforms in Asia and Europe and Co-operation with the Less Developed Centrally Planned Economies; H.Brezinski - THE CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMIES AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY RELATIONS - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Other Socialist Countries in the International Monetary and Financial System; G.Matyukhin - Requirements for Participation in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; T.King - Macro-economic Adjustment and Reform in Planned Economies; T.A.Wolf - Policy Positions towards the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank by Centrally Planned Economies that are not Members of those Organizations; V.Klaus - REFORMS AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS - Economic Reform and CMEA Co-operation in Global Economic Relations; Y.S.Shiryaev - Relations between the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and other Regional Economic Organizations; V.V.Sychev - Index