By the mid-1990s, an increasing number of those countries had embarked on a transition from central planning to market systems, undertaking reforms aimed at facilitating their reintegration into the global economy.
Do sredine devedesetih, većina njih zakoračilo je u tranziciju iz komandne u tržišnu ekonomiju, sprovodeći reforme sa ciljem olakšavanja reintegracije u globalnu ekonomiju.