Volume 12, Number 3, July-August-September 2001

	Aftermath of the September Terrorist Attacks—A Slowdown in Transition Economies Too?
	An Economist’s View: Poverty Did Not Cause the Terror Attacks by Keith Marsden
	Integration Spurs Growth, Poverty Reduction by Paul Collier and David Dollar Addressing the Risks of Globalization Globalization and Migration
	Globalization Is No Shortcut to Development  by Dani Rodrik Measuring Globalization
	WTO Accession Will Accelerate Reforms in China An Action Plan to Address the Most Pressing Issues  by Chi Fulin China’s Local Trade Barriers: A Hard Nut to Crack
	Discussion Forum Ten Years That Have Shaken Russia—Conflicting Assessments of the Results by Anders Åslund
	Market Bolshevism Harmed Russia  by Peter Reddaway Economic Recovery Is Slowing in Russia; Banking Reform Is on the Agenda
	A Bumpy Transition in Southeastern Europe Bulgaria and Romania Struggle to Beat the Odds  by Marvin Jackson Bulgaria’s Former King Announces Economic Program
	Romania’s Poverty Hampers Structural Reforms
	The World Bank’s Strategies for Bulgaria and Romania: Scenarios on the Table
	LGI/OSI Reforms on the Silk Road: Institutional Reform in Central Asia  by Tony Verheijen, Sergei Sirotkin, and Anastazia Kozakova Tribes, Clans, Hordes—Traditional Bonds Shape Political Cultures and Attitudes in Central Asia  by Askat Dukenbaev and Valimjan Tanyrykov Preventing Conflicts through Water Management in Central Asia  by Iskandar Abdullaev Kazakhstan Struggles with Migration Issues  by Akhas Tazhutov LGI/OSI Publications
	How Can Ukraine’s Government Be Made More Effective?  by Alex Sundakov
	The William Davidson Institute The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century  by Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales Traps in Decentralizing Financial Institutions: Some Interesting Lessons from China  by Albert Park and Minggao Shen Report from the Field  A regular column written by recipients of the William Davidson Institute Fellowship in Business Journalism After the Battle, Everybody’s a General—but Czech Privatization Really Was in Need of One…  by Jan Machacek Recent Working Papers
	SITE Russia and the World Trade Organization: Myths and Reality Mobility of Russian Workers Raises Productivity—New Research on Job Creation and Destruction  by J. David Brown and John S. Earle Baltic Development Forum Summit on EU–Russia Relations
	Is There a New Russia?  A report by the Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR and SITE) sums up the economic policy challenges facing the Russian government and suggests reform priorities.
	Budget Crisis Looms in Poland
	New Scoreboard of Economist Intelligence Unit Ranks Business Climates across the World
	Bank of Finland The Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) conducts high-level research on transition economics and monitors economic developments in Russia and the Baltic states. Its research focuses on issues relating to macroeconomic performance, the public sector, and financial markets in transition economies. The institute publishes two research-oriented discussion paper series and regular economic reviews. BOFIT Publications Nonresidents and the Russian Financial Crisis of 1998  by Alexei Medvedev Foreign Direct Investment in the Baltics  by Tuuli Juurikkala BOFIT Discussion Paper
	Enforcing Agribusiness Contracts  by Hamish R. Gow and Johan F. M. Swinnen
	World Bank\IMF\EBRD Agenda
	Conference Diary
	New Books and Working Papers
	Bibliography of Selected Articles