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In the countries discussed in the preceding chapter, the starting-point of economic transformation as well as the adopted transformation programme and its implementation varied from one country to another. Nevertheless, for all of them the transformation was primarily a domestic affair.
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Porket, J.L. (1995). Eastern Germany. In: Unemployment in Capitalist, Communist and Post-Communist Economies. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374225_12
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