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Having in the two preceding chapters discussed at some length economic transformation in post-communist societies from a theoretical point of view, it is possible to turn to an examination of the transformation process itself. Of necessity, though, this examination will be highly selective and far from exhaustive, as well as mostly confined to the first half of the 1990s.
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On Mongolia see Richard Pomfret, Asian Economies in Transition: Reforming Centrally Planned Economies, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1996, Chapter 6.
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Porket, J.L. (1998). Economic Transformation in Practice. In: Modern Economic Systems and their Transformation. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26696-8_15
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