1st Edition

Foreign Trade In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union The Vienna Institute For Comparative Economic Studies Yearbook Ii

Edited By Michael FriedlAnder Copyright 1990
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    This second yearbook of The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies presents studies dealing with the economic situation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Its foreign trade analysis offers insights into the ongoing transition process from centrally planned to market-oriented systems.

    Preface -- Introduction -- Reforms, Trade, and Trade Policy -- Soviet Perestroika and Foreign Trade -- Bulgaria: Economic Reforms and GATT – Continuing Questions -- Czechoslovakia’s Foreign Trade -- Hungary’s West Trade Policy -- CMEA Integration: Stagnation or a New Beginning? -- Trade with the Soviet Union -- Four Small Countries' Relations with the Soviet Union -- The Mechanism of Hungarian-Soviet Economic Relations -- Mechanism and Institutional System of the Finnish-Soviet Economic Relations -- Finnish-Soviet Economic Relations -- The Role of Technology -- Information Technologies and Their Impact on East-West Relations -- Export Control Reform and Western Security -- A Note on Austria’s Policies on Trade and Technology Transfer to the CMEA Countries -- Austria’s and Other Western Countries’ Performance in High Technology Exports to the East1 -- Foreign Debt -- Hard Currency Position of the CMEA Countries and Yugoslavia1 -- Poland’s Debt Situation -- Solving the Polish Debt Problem -- Yugoslavia’s Relations with International Financing Organizations