## A Decade of Transition: Achievements and Challenges

_Seminar Volumes, April 27, 2001_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Saleh M. Nsouli, Oleh Havrylyshyn
- Published: April 27, 2001
- Series: Seminar Volumes
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589060135.072

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### Overview
- Authors: Saleh M. Nsouli, Oleh Havrylyshyn
- Publication date: April 27, 2001
- Based on: IMF conference held in February 1999 in Washington, D.C.
- Scope: Reviews the experience of 25 non-Asian transition economies 10 years into their transformation to market economies.
- Main organizing questions addressed in the volume:
  - How far has transition progressed in each country?
  - What factors explain the differences in the progress made?
  - What remains to be done?

### Key themes and substantive findings
- Transition assessment:
  - Reviews progress across 25 non-Asian transition economies at the 10-year mark of transformation to market economies.
- Focus areas covered (subject taxonomy preserved from source):
  - Disinflation
  - Economic sectors
  - Income
  - Income inequality
  - Inflation
  - National accounts
  - Prices
  - Privatization
- Geographic and thematic keywords preserved:
  - Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, Europe, Middle East, North America
  - banking sector reform, enterprise, enterprise manager, enterprise sector, privatization, privatization problem, reform agenda, SEM, transition country, transition economy

### Intended analytic contributions
- Comparative diagnosis:
  - Systematic cross-country review to identify how far transition progressed and to explain variation in progress across countries.
- Policy orientation:
  - Identifies outstanding challenges and what remains to be done for completing transition toward market economies.

*International Monetary Fund — A Decade of Transition: Achievements and Challenges (April 27, 2001)*

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