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Recent business highlights. Visitors to IFC-CPDF. People among us. News from the region. Coming up soon.

Recent business highlights. Visitors to IFC-CPDF. People among us. News from the region. Coming up soon.

Recent business highlights. Visitors to IFC-CPDF. People among us. News from the region. Coming up soon.

Contents: Development news. Toward a pro - poor trade agenda. Trade reform for economic growth and poverty reduction. Mainstreaming trade for poverty alleviation - ... Show More + A Cambodian experience. Farm fallacies that hurt the poor. Agricultural protectionism - debt problems and the Doha Round. GATS negotiations must focus on services liberalization - the case of SADC. More favorable treatment of developing countries - toward a new grand bargain. An international investment agreement - promise and potential pitfalls. Trade facilitation, WTO rules, and capacity building - What's at stake? China and the WTO - policy reform and poverty reduction. Show Less -

Contents include: Recent business highlights. Visitors to CPDF. People among us. News from the Region. Coming up soon.

Recent business highlights. Visitors to CPDF. People among us. News from the region. Coming up soon.

Contents include: Recent business highlights. Visitors to CPDF. People among us. News from the Region. Coming up soon.

Good transition needs friendly investment climate - some lessons of experience; by Guy Pfeffermann. Foreign investment slumps in Cuba. Labor policy dilemmas precedi... Show More + ng EU enlargement - Labor markets of the accession countries : fit to join?; by Michelle Riboud, Carolina Sanchez-Paramo, and Carlos Silva-Jauregui. Trade Union strength in six CEE accession countries. Creating more jobs in Central and Eastern Europe. EU labor policies need urgent reform - prominent European economists warn of enlargement's consequences; by T. Boeri, H. Brucker, F. Coricelli, J. Dolado, J. Fitzgerald, A. de la Fuente, P. Garibaldi, G. Hanson, J. Jimeno, R. Portes, G. Saint-Paul, and A. Spilimbergo. Ireland's crucial voting on Nice - opponents play the immigration card; by Dan O'Brien. Russian accountancy adopts international standards; by Adolf J.J. Enthoven. US corporate capitalism on trial : What direction should cleanup efforts take?; by Adolf J.H. Enthoven. Digital divide or digital diffusion?; by Richard Rosa. Europe's E-readiness is closing in on the United States. Occupational health hazards facing China's workers and possible remedies; by Su Zhi, Wang Shang, and Steven P. Levine. Overcoming textbook misery in Uzbekistan; by Tony Reed. High priced - low priced : global city rankings by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Small businesses harassed in Russia despite new deregulation - results of a business survey; by Oleg Zamulin. Russia's WTO accession : scholars see positive effects; by Ksenia Yudaeva. Russia's WTO entry in perspective; by Robert M. Stern. Transition meets development - Economists debate convergence during Riga (Latvia) Conference; by Romans Pancs. The hazards of transplanting education reform - a view from the classrooms of post-communist schools; by Johanna Crighton. Decentralizing education in Central and Eastern Europe - Does it make a difference?; by Kenneth Davey. Reforms in Russian primary and secondary education : losses and gains; by Natalia Bartasheva. Private education in the EU; by David Hayhurst. Growth in transition: what we know, what we don't know, and what we should know; by Nauro F. Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli. Effects of ownership and financial status on corporate environmental performance; by Dietrich Earnhart and Lubomir Lizal. Transition policy network : a regional network of independent think tanks; by Claire Romanik. Fiscal situation of Baltic municipalities; by Viktor Trasberg.Dismal state of Russia's heavy machinery industries; by Pertti Naulappa. Role of foreign direct investment in the Russian banking sector; by Ilkka Salonen. Show Less -

Transition with Chinese characteristics - Progress in ownership changes and hidden risks in China's transition; by Fan Gang. China's experience with Transition: wha... Show More + t is behind its stunning economic success?; by Richard Hirschler. Stiglitz-Rogoff debate on "globalization and its discontents" : Stiglitz: IMF imposed excessive restrictions; Rogoff: your medicine is dubious. Stiglitz, the IMF, and Globalization; by Thomas C. Dawson. Excerpts from "Globalization and its Discontents"; by Joseph Stiglitz. How free from fear are citizens in transition societies?; by Richard Rose. Undertaking a difficult transition in Yugoslavia; by Aleksandra Brankovic and Aleksa Nenadovic. International training program for entrepreneurs in Mekong countries; by Joseph McKenzie. Vietnam focuses on education. Education, ethnicity, and single motherhood: the determinants of poverty in post-communist countries; by Ivan Szelenyi. Corruption and poverty in posto-communist Europe; by William L. Miller. Education to facilitate the way out of poverty; by Lucinia Bal. Russian industry and WTO accession: death knell or new beginning?; by Ksenia Yudaeva, Evgenia Bessonova, and Konstantin Kozlov. A symposium on outstanding issues of transition economics. Transition economies: performances and challenges; by Jan Svejnar. The political economy of transition; by Gerard Roland. Institutional determinants of labor reallocation in transition countries; by Tito Boeri and Katherine Terrell. Competition and corporate governance in transition countries; by Saul Estrin. Research data from transition economies; by Randall K. Filer and Jan Hanousek. Poor decentralization policy burden's Poland social services; by Janelle Kerlin. Measuring and evaluating transition: the blessing and curse of indicators; by Ivan Tosics. The importance of nominal convergence for EU candidate countries; by Marketta Jarvinen. Finnish firms see more business in Russia - and reform needs; by Mirja Azeem. Show Less -

Just like combating terror, fighting poverty is a common responsibility - interview with Nick Stern; by Richard Hirschler. Petty corruption in the wild, wild east; ... Show More + by Scott Thomas. Anticorruption campaigns : how to get rid of paradoxes and inconsistencies; by Arista-Maria Cirtanutas. Writing an effective anticorruption law; by Richard E. Messick and Rachel Kleinfeld. Slovak Republic's fight against corruption - excerpts from a Government report. Corruption : the enemy of progress; by Jennifer Munroe. How Hungary escaped transition failure and runaway corruption. China's own path toward a market economy : interview with a prominent reformer; by Pal Reti. Accounting standards in China; by Ray Ball, Ashok Robi, and Joanna Shuang Wu. Accounting and auditing reform advances in Moldova; by Adolf Enthoven and Mike Neider. How to avoid derailing Russia's railways reform; by Russell Pittman. Gazprom on rails? - Russia's new railway company. The dismal record of Britain's rail-track; by Luigi Marcon. Mortgage finance in transition countries - learning from common mistakes; by Raymond J. Struyk. First step toward Russia's land reform; by Ariel Cohen. Enlargement of the European Central Bank requires urgent reform; by R.E. Baldwin, E. Berglof, and M. Widgren. Monetary transmission mechanisms : a look at the Baltic economies; by Rudolf Bems. Latvia's new super-regulators have a mission; by Alf Vanags. Accession negotiations surged ahead under Swedish Presidency; by Claus Schultze. Debating Baltic identity. Integrating Russians in the Baltic societies. Kaliningrad : uncertain future of Russia's enclave in the Baltics. Public utilities need skills to navigate between regulation and competition; by Tamas M. Horvath and Gabor Peteri. Risks of outsourcing in Slovakia; by Juraj Nemec. Local governance networks in Central Asia. Banking cries and Bank rescues: the effect of reputation; by Jenny Corbett and Janet Mitchell. Who's afraid of political instability?; by Nauro F. Campos and Jeffrey B. Nugent. The evolution of market integration in Russia; by Daniel Berkowitz and David N. DeJong. Foreign investment boom in transition economies will withstand global slowdown. Financial supervision in the Baltic countries; by Jaana Rantama. Russian banking sector reform in 2004?; by Vesa Korhonen. Show Less -