Safety Nets, Politics, and the Poor: Transitions to Market Economies

by Carol Graham

Book Overview

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Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies. Most of these countries have fragile democratic regimes that are threatened by the high social and political costs of reform. Governments--and ultimately societies--have to make hard choices about allocating scarce public resources as they undergo these transitions. A central, often controversial, and most poignant question is how to protect vulnerable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815734034
• ISBN13: 9780815734031
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"