Contents
Notes on contributors xii
Acknowledgements xv
1 Introduction 1
MATS LUNDAHL AND MICHAEL L. WYZAN
PART I Developed countries 23
2 Stable growth with slow and expensive adjustments: an essay on the old OECD countries using Denmark as an
example 25MARTIN   ALDAM
3 Reform failure and poor economic performance: the case of Sweden 49  BO SÖDERSTEN
4 The role of European integration in the reform process:the  Greek experience 70 S A R A N T I S E . G . L O L O S
5 The political economy of reform failure and
macroeconomic mis-management: Turkey, 1980–2002 89
A . E R I N Ç Y E L D A N A N D S A B I T K H A K I M Z H A N O V
PART II Transition countries 115
6 On the political economy of transformation: reasons for success, causes of failure 117
J O Z E F M . V A N B R A B A N T
7 A chequered history: political culture and conflict in
Albanian economic reform 146
MARTA MUÇO AND ÖRJAN SJÖBERG
8 Bulgaria: macroeconomic and political-economic implications of stabilisation under a currency board
arrangement 170 G E O R G Y Y . G A N E V A N D M I C H A E L L . W Y Z A N
9 The political-economy trap and economic reform in Russia 197
B A R R Y W . I C K E S
10 Uzbekistan: economic reform and economic performance, 1991–9 219
RICHARD POMFRET
PART III Developing countries 239
11 Political economy of economic policy making in developing countries: an overview 241
DEEPAK LAL
12 Burma: the pathology of economic decline and political repression 257
RONALD FINDLAY
13 Haiti: nothing but crisis 272
MATS LUNDAHL AND RUBÉN SILIÉ
14 From restoring external solvency to managing the
social deficit: Nicaraguan debt revisited 302
J A I M E B E H A R
15 The political economy of policy failure in Zambia 316
A R N E B I G S T E N A N D S T E V E K A Y I Z Z I - M U G E R W A