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Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
  • 9 february 2005

    Challenges of Market Building

    Although at different stages, both the EU and Russia are transition economies. In the last two decades, Russia and the EU engaged in unprecedented market building projects. The EU decided to complete the Single Market, while Russia, which had been operating for more than seventy years under the principles of central planning, began transforming itself into a market economy.

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Challenges of Market Building

Although at different stages, both the EU and Russia are transition economies. In the last two decades, Russia and the EU engaged in unprecedented market building projects. The EU decided to complete the Single Market, while Russia, which had been operating for more than seventy years under the principles of central planning, began transforming itself into a market economy.

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