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List of contributors

Preface

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Privatization, enterprise development and economic reform: experiences of developing and transitional economies

Paul Cook

Colin Kirkpatrick

Frederick Nixson

PART II ENTERPRISE REFORM AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT: THEORY, POLICY AND EXPERIENCE

2 The dual risks of market exchange and the transition process

Mo Yamin

3 Transnational corporations as agents for the transmission of business culture to host countries

Hafiz Mirza

4 The response of Ghana's manufacturing sector to structural adjustment

Isaac Acheampong

Michael Tribe

5 Private investment, bank credit and structural adjustment in Ghana

Martin Brownbridge

6 Open economy adjustment and transition in Viet Nam

John Weeks

7 Financial and legal reform and enterprise restructuring: evidence from Poland

John S. Henley

8 Enterprise restructuring in central and eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union: the role of technical assistance

George B. Assaf

9 Joint ventures in China and their relation to the local economy

Le-Yin Zhang

John T. Thoburn

10 Foreign trade reform and China's state export-import enterprises

Alasdair I. MacBean

PART III SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

11 Small firm formation in transitional economies: a case study of Egypt

Amr A. Elleithy

Frederick Nixson

12 Dynamics of small enterprise development: state versus market in the Asian newly industrializing economies

Philippe Regnier

13 Social and cultural influences on the growth of small firms

S.A. Hussain

PART IV SOCIAL IMPACT OF ENTERPRISE RESTRUCTURING

14 Privatization, employment and social protection in developing countries

Paul Cook

Colin Kirkpatrick

15 The effects on labour of the restructuring of coal production

Jonathan Winterton

Ruth Winterton

16 Coal in Vorkuta: subsidies and the social safety net

Paul G. Hare

Index