Research Catalog

Title

Moving to market : restructuring transport in the former Soviet Union / by John S. Strong, John R. Meyer with Clell G. Harral, Graham Smith.

Author

Strong, John S.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Institute for International Development, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Meyer, John Robert.

Description

ix, 237 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.

Summary

• In 1992, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development commissioned four studies of rail, road, air, and water transport in the republics of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. This book combines these studies in a comprehensive assessment of transport at the advent of transition from centrally-planned to market economics.
• Energy, trade, and environmental policies, in the context of central planning, resulted in the world's most transport-intensive economy. The transition economies represent a distinct type of transport environment, with adequate physical capacity but lacking in many dimensions of service and quality. This book assesses key policy issues, restructuring needs, and organizational changes facing each sector in the transition to a market-oriented transport system.

Series Statement

Harvard studies in international development

Uniform Title

Harvard studies in international development.

Subjects

• Former Soviet republics > Economic policy
• Transportation and state > Former Soviet republics
• Transportation > Former Soviet republics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Transport in the Soviet Union -- 2. The Macroeconomic Context -- 3. Technological, Financial, and Institutional Lags -- 4. Rail Transport -- 5. Road Transport -- 6. Water Transport -- 7. Air Transport -- 8. Corporatization and Privatization -- 9. Regulation -- 10. Toward a Market-Oriented Transport System.

ISBN

0674588142 (cloth)

LCCN

95040080

OCLC

• 33244037
• ocm33244037

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries