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Glasnost' revealed extensive environmental damage in all centrally planned economies. Using an established framework for evaluation of policy instruments, this essay provides a structured assessment of the environmental-control policy choice problem for transition economies, briefly reviews existing policies in select transition economies, and makes some policy recommendations. The goal is to inform and stimulate a policy debate toward adopting effective environmental policies that will serve these societies under the new form of economy they are seeking to build.
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*I thank Paul Burkett and Alan Krupnick for helpful discussion of the ideas in this paper. Any remaining deficiencies are the responsibility of the author.
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Lotspeich, R. Strategies for Environmental Policy in Transition Economies: Command Versus Market Instruments. Comp Econ Stud 37, 125–145 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1057/ces.1995.45
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/ces.1995.45