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1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

New Developments of Economic Reforms in the soviet Union and East-European Countries

Research Project

Project/Area Number 01530024
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 経済事情及び政策学
Research InstitutionHitotsubashi University, Institute of Economic Research

Principal Investigator

NISHIMURA Yoshiaki  Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Economic Research, Professor, 経済研究所, 教授 (60017671)

Project Period (FY) 1989 – 1991
KeywordsPerestroika / Economic reform / Centralized system / Market economy / Socialism / The Soviet Union / Commonwealth of independent countries / Eastern Europe
Research Abstract

I have concentrated myself on summarizing experiences of transition to market economies initiated earnestly one year ago in the East-European countries, and analyzing the collapse of the Soviet Union, while paying attention to the fact that the research project will come to an end in this fiscal year.
As for the East-European countries, I have analyzed the actual situation that the radical marketization policies advised by IMF on the basis of economic liberalism has been dealing a serious blow to their industries. I emphasized that it must be reconsidered how to involve the former socialist economies into the Breton Woods system, and that it is urgently necessary to work out alternative policies for the so-called shock therapy. I have also groped for those policies. I pointed out a danger that the application of the radical economic liberalism without consideration of concrete conditions in the countries may bring about serious economic and social conflicts.
As concerns the Soviet Union, I noted in July 1991, by the detailed analysis of marketization programs published in the first half of 1990, that the government had come to a deadlock on its way to a market economy since the autumn of 1990. And I asserted that trying to break through the situation led to the August coup, whose essence consists in the republics' achievement of independence and a collapse of the soviet Union.
I proposed "initial conditions of marketization in the former socialist economies" as a framework of analyzing the problems of moves to market economies, which attracted attention of researchers and officials concerned.

  • Research Products

    (13 results)

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All Publications (13 results)

  • [Publications] 西村 可明: "ソ連における市場経済化プログラム" 経済研究(91年7月). 42. 261-275 (1991)

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  • [Publications] 西村 可明: "市場経済化ー中欧の経験とソ連" 世界. 561. 120-129 (1991)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 西村 可明: "The Shift to Market Economics in Eastern Europe" Japan Review of International Affairs. 6ー1. (1992)

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  • [Publications] 西村 可明: "ソ連・東欧の市場経済化と経済リベラリズム" ECOーFORUM. 10. 11-15 (1992)

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  • [Publications] 西村 可明: "市場経済化と体制転換" 『市場経済化と体制転換ーソ連・東欧・中国ー』JETRO. 1-58 (1992)

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  • [Publications] 西村 可明: "The persent situetion of the transition to the merket economy in the Saviet Union and the EastーEuropean Countries" Development Stretegies for the 21th Centry(Institute of Developing Economices). 292-297 (1992)

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  • [Publications] Yoshiake NISHIMURA: "Programs of Transition to a Market Economy in the Soviet Union" The Economic Review. 42. 261-275 (1991)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Yoshiake NISHIMURA: "Transition to Market Economies-Experiences in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union-" The World. No. 561. 120-129 (1991)

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  • [Publications] Yoshiake NISHIMURA: "Marketization in the Central and East European Countries and Economic Liberalism" ECO-FORUM. 10. 11-15 (1992)

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  • [Publications] Yoshiake NISHIMURA: "Problems in the Transition to Market Economies-in the cases of Eastern Europe-" The Rapidly Changing World and the Japanese Economy. 210-236 (1991)

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  • [Publications] Yoshiake NISHIMURA: "Marketization of the Former Socialist Economies and Transformation of the Economic Systems" Transition to Market Economies and Transformation of Economic Systems. 1-58 (1992)

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  • [Publications] Yoshiake NISHIMURA: "The Present Situation of the Transition to the Market Economy in the Soviet Union and the East European Countries" Development Strategies for the 21th Century. 292-297 (1992)

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  • [Publications] Yoshiake NISHIMURA: "The Shift to Market Economies in Eastern Europe" Japan Review of International Affairs. 6, No. 1. (1992)

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Published: 1993-03-16  

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