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(Library of congress, 1988) Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus

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Coordinating Reforms in Transition Economies

( 1999) Yingyi Qian ; Gérard Roland ; Chenggang Xu

We establish a theory to analyze how initial conditions of organizational differences in transition economies affect reform strategies, especially the "big-bang" approach in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union economies as the U-form and the "experimental" approach in China as the M-form. We model the coordination of specialized tasks inside an organization as "attribute matching" and compare organizational forms (U-form and M-form) in coordinating reforms. Organizational forms affect the information structure of an organization and thus the way to coordinate reforms. Compared to the U- form, the M-form organization achieves better coordination but suffers from higher costs due to a lack of scale economies. The M-form has a distinctive advantage in carrying out experimentation that it is more flexible in reforms.

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Agricultural Sector Reforms in Tanzania Perspectives from within

(FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS, 2008) FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS