The vast bulk of growth in Emerging Europe since the fall of communism can be explained by the better allocation of resources that has resulted from the transition from central planning to a market economy. However, the most important lesson from the past twenty years for both policymakers and investors is that those countries that combined economic reforms with institutional reforms have prospered the most.
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