Product Description: This volume is primarily concerned with the first key component of transition: restructuring―the changing behavior of firms and their complex interaction with the labor market, most particularly with unemployment. Chapter 1 gives an overview of firm behavior, restructuring, and the labor market in the transition...read more

Product Description: This study focuses on the way programme lending, where financing is conditional on developing countries adopting policy reforms, reflects the priorities of the major multilateral lenders and its effect on agricultural sector policy. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)