Includes bibliographical references and index.

External liberalization in Asia, post-socialist Europe, and Brazil / Lance Taylor -- Belindia goes to Washington : the Brazilian economy after the reforms / Matias Vernengo -- External liberalization, growth, and distribution in China / Shantong Li -- Opening up the Hungarian economy : conditions and consequences of liberalizing trade and capital flows in Hungary / Gâabor Oblath -- A decade of reforms : the Indian economy in the 1990s / J. Mohan Rao and Amitava Krishna Dutt -- Indonesia's external liberalization : policy dynamics and socio-economic impact / Iwan J. Azis -- The long and winding road to liberalization : the South Korean experience / Jong-Il You -- External liberalization, economic performance, and distribution in Malaysia / Jomo K.S. and Tan Eu Chye -- External liberalization, growth, and distribution in the Philippines / Joseph Y. Lim and Carlos C. Bautista -- External liberalization, growth, and distribution : the Polish experience / Leon Podkaminer -- The Russian way of adjustment : mechanisms of economic growth in 1999-2001 and patterns of poverty and income distribution / Alexander Yu. Vorobyov and Stanislav V. Zhukov -- External liberalization and economic growth : the case of Singapore / Mun-Heng Toh -- The distributive and macroeconomic impact of liberalization in Thailand / Bhanupong Nidhiprabha -- Turkey, 1980-2000 : financial liberalization, macroeconomic (in)stability, and patterns of distribution / Korkut Boratav and Erinc Yeldan -- Vietnam : external liberalization, structural change, economic growth, and income distribution / Le Anh Tu Packard.