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Volume 12, Number 2, April-May-June 2001

The World Bank’s New Approach to Good Governance: Promises and Risks 
by Johannes Linn	
Investment with a High Return: Supporting Economics Education and Research in Transition Countries 
Minutes of a High-Powered Meeting at the World Bank
 A Study on Strengthening Economics Education in Transition Economies
 NES, EERC, CEFIR: A Triumvirate in Russia, Sowing the Seeds of Modern Economics
Outreach of the New Economic School: Regional Capacity Building in Russia 
by Sergei Guriev
Accomplishments of the NES Outreach Program since Fall 1998
China’s Great Financial Challenge 
by Henk van Gemert
 Financial Reform in China: Bridging the Gap between Plan and Market
 The Transformation of China's Banks and Capital Markets
Building Support for Policy Change by Improving Governance in China: The Case of Shunde
by Yang Yao
 The Entrepreneur and the Politician
Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Nice Try? The Uncertain Future of the Nice Treaty 
by Richard E. Baldwin, Erik Berglöf, Francesco Giavazzi, and Mika Widgren
Rebuilding the Ravaged Balkans: Europe Needs New Development Policy
by George Petrakos
 How to Fix the Balkans? A Conference in Volos, Greece
by Jennifer Vito
Lithuanian Women Bear the Brunt of Transition 
by Anne Marie Spevacek
The William Davidson Institute
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Latest from the Davidson Institute’s Publication Profiles
The Secrets of China’s Business Groups
by Lisa A. Keister  (Oxford University Press, 2000)
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Competition and Enterprise Performance in Transition Economies
by Wendy Carlin, Steven Fries, Mark Schaffer, and Paul Seabright
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Report from the Field
For the past eight years, the William Davidson Institute has sponsored a Fellowship in Business Journalism. Every year, one or two mid-career journalists from transition and emerging market economies come to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to study topics that will improve their ability to report on business, economics, and related public policy issues. Starting with this issue of the Transition Newsletter, we include an article by one of these correspondents from the field.
In the Labyrinth
by Catalin Dimofte
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Conference Diary
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Recent Working Papers 
LGI/OSI
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Good Governance Requires Respect for Ethnic Diversity
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Recent Publications of LGI’s Managing Multiethnic Communities Project (MMCP)
Diversity in Action: Local Public Management of Multiethnic Communities
edited by Anna-Mária Biró and Petra Kovács
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Bibliography on Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) What Is COMIR? 
by Snjezana Bokulic
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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.
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Putin’s Second Year and Beyond—Seeking the Engine of Change  
by Pekka Sutela
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) Russia Could Progress Faster through Liberalization
by Jouko Rautava
redbal4b.gif (916 bytes) New BOFIT Discussion Papers
BOFIT Scholarships
World Bank\IMF\EBRD Agenda
Conference Diary
Bibliography of Selected Articles
New Books and Working Papers
 

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