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World
Bank’s New Approach Helps Business in Transition Economies Lessons
Learned from the Latest Adjustment Loan to Latvia
by Lars Jeurling
 Box:
New Thinking on Adjustment Lending--New Loan Products |
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Are
Foreign Investors and Multinationals Engaging in Corrupt Practices in
Transition Economies?
by Joel Hellman, Geraint Jones, and Daniel Kaufmann |
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The
William Davidson Institute
Is Foreign Investment Good or Bad for Transition
and Emerging Economies?
In June 1999 the William Davidson Institute hosted a conference on
Foreign Investment and Emerging Markets. Highlights of the conference
appeared in the August 1999 issue of Transition. We showcase
three papers from the conference, each focusing on some aspect of the
effect of multinational investment on the host country.
 Spillovers
from Multinationals in Developing Countries: The Mechanisms at Work by
Richard E. Caves Summary of WDI Working Paper 24
Do
Corporate Global Environmental Standards in Emerging Markets Create or
Destroy Market Value?
Summary of WDI
Working Paper 259, forthcoming in Management
Science (August
2000).
The Role of Human Capital in Foreign Direct Investment
by Juan Alcacer
Recent Working Papers of the William Davidson Institute |
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Linking Local Suppliers to Multinationals: How Can Governments Play a Useful Role?
by Xiaofang Shen
|
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Global Development Network Helps Transform Economics in Transition Economies
by Noemi Lea Giszpene and Lyn Squire
|
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Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia
by Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman
Reviewed by Daniel Treisman |
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The
Russian Lesson: A Market Economy Needs an Effective State
by László Bruszt |
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A Decade of Transformation: Russia and Hungary Compared
by László Csaba
|
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Russia’s
New Economic Program: Does “Putinomics” Mean a Slimmed but Muscular
State? |
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Joint
Statement of Russian-U.S. Economists New Agenda for Economic Reform in
Russia |
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The Lure of
the Authoritarian Temptation
by Pekka Sutela |
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The
Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)
Reversing
the Brain Drain in Transition Economies
by Erik Berglöf (SITE and RECEP)
Box 1: The New Economic School (NES),
Moscow
Box
2: The Russian European Centre for Economic Policy (RECEP), Moscow
Box
3: Economics Education Research Consortium (EERC), Moscow
SITE/RECEP
Research: Why Russian Workers Do Not Move: Attachment of
Workers through in-Kind Payments
by Guido Friebel (SITE and RECEP) and Sergei Guriev (RECEP
and NES)
RECEP
Working Papers 1999-2000
Does Foreign Ownership Matter? Russian Experience
by K. Yudaeva (RECEP), K. Kozlov (RECEP and NES), N.
Melentieva (NES),
and N. Ponomareva (NES) |
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World
Bank/IMF Agenda |
|
Conference
Diary |
|
Milestones
of Transition |
|
World
Health Report 2000: Ranking of Transition Economies |
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New
Books and Working Papers |
|
Mancur
Olson, Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Cap;italist
Dictatorships, Basic Books, 2000
reviewed by William Easterly |
|
Bibliography
of Selected Articles |
