Serbia’s Transition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   • Milica Uvalic

   Pages 1-13

3. Serbia on the Eve of Transition

   • Milica Uvalic

   Pages 14-44

4. The Early 1990s: Political and Economic Instability

   • Milica Uvalic

   Pages 45-72

5. Post-Dayton: Slow Progress with Transition

   • Milica Uvalic

   Pages 73-106

6. Serbia’s ‘velvet’ Revolution and Its Aftermath

   • Milica Uvalic

   Pages 107-138

7. Embarking on Transition for a Second Time

   • Milica Uvalic

   Pages 139-178

8. Transition Strategy Flaws: Privatization and Restructuring

   • Milica Uvalic

   Pages 179-215

9. Integrating Serbia into the EU

   • Milica Uvalic

   Pages 216-248

10. The Way to a Better Future: Remaining Challenges

    • Milica Uvalic

    Pages 249-274

11. Postface

    • Milica Uvalic

    Pages 275-277

12. Back Matter

    Pages 278-326

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The book analyzes the twenty years of economic transition from socialism to capitalism in Serbia. It offers a comprehensive evaluation of the achievements and failures of the transition, and explains why its course has been more complex and unique than elsewhere in the former socialist world.

• capitalism
• European Union (EU)
• Privatization
• socialism

'This excellent book is the result of both long years of research on post-communist transition and her personal experience accumulated in the Yugoslav federal government in 2000-1.' -Etudes Balkaniques

MILICA UVALIC is Professor of Economics, University of Perugia, Italy. Member of the UN Committee for Development Policy. Previously she was President of EACES, Vice-Minister for Foreign Economic Relations in the first post-Milosevic government of FR Yugoslavia, and Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Books include Investment and Property Rights in Yugoslavia, The PEPPER Report, Privatization Surprises in Transition Economies (with D. Vaughan-Whitehead), Transition and Beyond (with S. Estrin and G. W. Kolodko) and Globalization, Development and Integration (with P. Della Posta and A. Verdun).

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