Political Economy of Reform Failure

Stockholm School of Economics

• List of figures List of Tables Notes on the contributors Preface 1. INTRODUCTION Mats Lundahl and Michael L. Wyzan Part I Developed Countries 2. STABLE GROWTH WITH SLOW AND EXPENSIVE ADJUSTMENTS: AN ESSAY ON THE OLD OECD COUNTRIES USING DENMARK AS AN EXAMPLE Martin Paldam 3. REFORM FAILURE AND POOR ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF SWEDEN Bo Södersten 4. THE ROLE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION IN THE REFORM PROCESS: THE GREEK EXPERIENCE Sarantis E.G. Lolos 5. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM FAILURE AND MACROECONOMIC MIS-MANAGEMENT: TURKEY, 1980-2002 A. Erinç Yeldan and Sabit Khakimzhanov Part II Transition Countries 6. ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSFORMATION – REASONS FOR SUCCESS, CAUSES OF FAILURE Jozef M. van Brabant 7. A CHEQUERED HISTORY: POLITICAL CULTURE AND CONFLICT IN ALBANIAN ECONOMIC REFORM Marta Muço and Örjan Sjöberg 8. BULGARIA: MACROECONOMIC AND POLITICAL-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF STABILIZATION UNDER A CURRENCY BOARD ARRANGEMENT Georgy Y. Ganev and Michael L. Wyzan 9. NOTES FOR A PAPER ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY TRAP AND ECONOMIC REFORM IN RUSSIA Barry W. Ickes 10. UZBEKISTAN: ECONOMIC REFORM AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1991-99 Richard Pomfret Part III Developing Countries 11. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ECONOMIC POLICY MAKING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: AN OVERVIEW Deepak Lal 12. BURMA: THE PATHOLOGY OF ECONOMIC DECLINE AND POLITICAL REPRESSION Ronald Findlay 13. HAITI: NOTHING BUT CRISIS Mats Lundahl and Rubén Silié 14. FROM RESTORING EXTERNAL SOLVENCY TO MANAGING THE SOCIAL DEFICIT: NICARAGUAN DEBT REVISITED Jaime Behar 15. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POLICY FAILURE IN ZAMBIA Arne Bigsten and Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa Index