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North Korean enterprise and collective farm reform: what next?
Property rights will require a major overhaul if the DPRK is to experience any real development
Price setting in North Korea: From marketization to institutionalization
Analysis suggests the market has moved from the margins of the DPRK economy to the center
How the famine years prompted North Korea’s first real enterprise reforms
Economic crisis saw some companies turn to financial self-reliance - with little success
The black, the state-run, and the grey: three kinds of markets in N. Korea today
Business often takes place at the intersection of legality and illegality
How N. Korea can fix its credibility problem with international investors
Building trust will require compromises, but potential solutions available
Risky business? Potential sectors for investment in North Korea
Mining, finance, and infrastructure could be lucrative industries when - and if - sanctions are relieved
Art of the deal: commercial contracts in DPRK law
Analysis shows enterprises have been granted unparalleled fiscal autonomy in certain areas of activity
North Korea as the next Vietnam? It’s unlikely
"Reform and opening-up" could be highly damaging to political stability
Why South Korean politics holds scary lessons for North Korea’s elite
The sorry fates of former ROK heads of state could one day be visited on the Kims
The biggest tax cuts in North Korean history
The DPRK's command economy made the abolition of personal income tax largely symbolic