La réforme économique en Europe de l'Est

Economie Reform in Eastern Europe : An Appraisal after a Decade. In the early Sixties, the countries of Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union, began considering different types of economic reforms designed to change the traditional «administrative» direction of the economy, which was characterized by over-all central planning and administrative control. This system was implanted in the USSR during the Thirties and introduced in the other East European countries after the Second World War. In spite of certain differences, the various projects for reform had many common traits: enforcement of the role of market forces and money; new financial indicators, such as sales, profit or rentability; and greater autonomy for firms in the elaboration and execution of production plans. In practice, the pace of implementation, extension and eventually the reversal of the reform projects varied largely in the different countries as a result of the controversy between adherents and opponents of reform. Ten years after their introduction, it is possible to analyze the reforms in effect and their economic, political and social consequences. This is the aim of the articles published by Marie Lavigne, Andrzej Korbonski and Walter D. Connor, the main ideas and themes of which are discussed by Morris Bornstein

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