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Conference Diary For the Record Third Meeting of the ECPD International Permanent Study Group on
Transition and Privatization The meeting was organized by the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) of the University for Peace established by the United Nations and sponsored by the Macedonian government. The meeting was attended by government experts, the acidemia, and business managers. Over twenty papers were presented and discussed by the Group. The meeting reviewed recent comparable international experience of privatization in the transition economies, identified plus and minuses of various forms of privatization. and evaluated what role institutions and government policies play in determining the quality of corporate governance. In the discussion about the decade-old experience with privatization, opinions differed whether privatization on the whole was really successful. Many expressed the view that privatization had too often led to negative consequences for income distribution and social justice. Weakness of the institutional framework for adequate corporate governance was emphasized. The experience of investment funds as instrument of corporate governance in the mass privatization schemes of Poland and the Czech Republic was examined from that perspective. The conclusion, broadly shared by the Group as a whole, was that these funds had proved inadequate for the task, due to the absence of adequate incentives and the lack of strong institutions of accountability and control. This was found to be a serious impediment both to efficient restructuring of privatized enterprises and to effective corporate governance. Information: Ms. Gordana Hofmann, ECPD, Terazije 41, Belgrade, Tel.: 381-11-3246-041, 3246-042, 3246-043, 3246-044, 3246-045; fax: 381-11-3240-673, 3234-082; email: ecpd@EUnet.yu Good Governance and Administration in Europe’s Integrated
Market Information: 11th Session on the Law of the European Union. Contact: Academy of European Law of the European University Institute, Florence. Tel./fax: (39.055) 468.5523; email: ciomei@datacomm. iue.it; Web site: http://www.iue.it/ Improving Accontability, Efficiency and Responsiveness in
Government: Ideas and Lessons for the New Millennium Information: Catherine Coninckx, IASIA, Brussels, Belgium. Tel./fax: (32.2) 537. 97.02; e-mail: iasia@iiasiia.be . In Chinese, English, and French. EACES conference on Financial Crises in Transition Countries:
Recent Lessons and Problems yet to Solve Information: Katrin Renneberg, Division of Central and Eastern Europe, Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Kleine Märkerstr. 8, D-06108 Halle (Saale); email: krb@iwh.uni-halle.de; Website: http://www.iwh.uni-halle.de/ Ethics and Responsibility Information: NISPAcee, Bratislava, Slovakia. Tel./fax: (42.7) 64.28.55.57; email: viera@nispa.sk; Web site: http://www.nispa.sk/ In English. Sixth ICCEES World Congress Information: Secretariat, Finnish Institute for Russian and East European Studies, Annankatu 44, Helsinki 00100 Finland. Tel.: 358-9-2285 4434; fax: 358-9-2285 4431; email: iccees@rusin.fi; Web site: http://www.rusin.fi/iccees. In English, French, German, and Russian. Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ethics, Integrity and
Human Rights Third Biennial International ConferenceInformation: Milan Pagon, College of Police and Security Studies, Univesity of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tel.: (386.61) 172.4678; fax: (386.61) 302.687; email: milanp@vpvs.uni-lj.si; Web site: http://www.vpvs.uni-lj.si/conf2000. In English. China: Growth Sustainability in the 21st Century Organizers: China Economy and Business Program, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, Australian National University, and Association for Chinese Economic Studies (Australia). Topics: Macroeconomic stability during the transition to market economy; further integration into the global economy, including through trade liberalisation, accession to the WTO and liberalisation of the capital account; foreign direct investment and interactions among the Chinese economies of the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao; development of the capital market and reform of the financial sector; building an efficient labour market and the challenges of unemployment and income disparity problems; accelerating economic growth in the West; reform of the state-owned enterprises and rise of the private enterprise sector; reform and re-building of the social security system; demographic transition and economic growth; urbanisation, the environment, the energy market and economic development; transformation of the rural economy and its implications for farming income and food security; and trends of factor supplies and changing sources of productivity growth. Information: Ms. Marilyn Popp, Australia-Japan Research Centre. Tel.: (+612) 62490168, Australian National University, fax: (+612) 62490767, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia, email: marilyn. popp@anu.edu.au. 7th Annual CIS and Eastern Europe Business Forum Information: Roza Simkhovich, Tuscon. Tel./fax: (1.520) 298.6599; e-mail: roza@ dakatocom.net or marthay@u.arizona. edu. Last year’s conference Web site is: http://russian.arizona.edu, then click on "Business Forum 99." |
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