Globalization and the Big Forecast for Post-Socialist Countries

Author: G. Kowardko
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This book won the 2002 Polish Minister of National Education and Sports Award! It is specially recommended to Chinese readers by the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Poland! Based on the author's profound theoretical expertise and practical experience in the study of development economics, finance, and institutional transitions and socio-economic development, as well as his deep understanding of the extremely complex economic, social, and political relationships in post-socialist countries, this book comprehensively explores the relationship between economic transitions and globalization processes in post-socialist countries, as well as their development prospects. It skillfully integrates various complex factors in post-socialist countries with the contradictory process of globalization, combining them organically with economic growth strategies and conducts in-depth analysis. The author believes that globalization and transition are two sides of the same coin, two long-term, deepening, complementary, and irreversible processes. In the context of institutional transitions in post-socialist countries, globalization has brought both opportunities and challenges to them. However, overall, the opportunities outweigh the challenges. Whether post-socialist countries can turn challenges into opportunities depends on the policies of political leaders, otherwise, they may be marginalized and pushed to the sidelines of the global village, where they are ignored. In the book, the author expresses satisfaction with the achievements he achieved while leading Poland's economic transition in the 1990s and passionately praises China's successful transition from a planned economy to a market economy. This is an academic monograph that examines the relationship between globalization and post-socialist transitions.