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The Republic of Moldova's transition: between a failed communism and an un-commenced capitalism
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Abstract This article outlines the main social, political, and economic reasons that explain Moldova's delay in its post-Soviet transition, after gaining its independence in August 1991. In comparison to the Baltic States, Republic of Moldova has had a different starting point in the "transition race". First... view more
This article outlines the main social, political, and economic reasons that explain Moldova's delay in its post-Soviet transition, after gaining its independence in August 1991. In comparison to the Baltic States, Republic of Moldova has had a different starting point in the "transition race". First, the independence of the former Soviet republic benefited of a much lesser support within the Moldovan society -local population and political elites-, and on behalf of foreign states and international institutions. Moldova's agrarian economy and its strong dependence on Russian resources and post-Soviet economic system also disadvantaged its development. To this one could add state governors' low capacity to negotiate with foreign financial donors (mainly IMF and World Bank) in order to defend the local economic interests, but also to properly use the contracted credits. One of the main obstacles in Moldova’s development path was the low quality of state governance and the advanced level of "state capture" (i.e. interference of vested interests into state governance) and thus its limited capacity to administrate a favorable transition based on existent economic resources and assets, not on their ruins.... view less
Keywords
Moldova; transition; political independence; governance; post-communist society; Russia; economic development (on national level)
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
National Economy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 541-568
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, XVI (2016) 4
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works