ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE 1990s 1.Lifted ¼ of people out of poverty 2.Doubled GDP 3.Initiated middle class growth 4.Transitioned a large segment of the economy out of state-control into private hands without shock therapy 5.Established a central banking system & tamed inflation 6.Decentralized power & began contested free elections in thousands of local areas 7.Liberalized press freedoms
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