Economic Reform and Environmental Performance in Transition Economies

'...transition has proved to be a much longer and more difficult process than most had anticipated, and progress has varied. By 1998 only one country, Poland (which embarked on economic reform before the rest of the region), had reestablished sustained economic growth and surpassed the pretransition level of real gross domestic product (GDP).'
- From 'Economic Reform and Environmental Performance in Transition Economies'

Most global economy and environmental watchers expect the transition t…