Volume 11, Number 1, February 2000

• The Bank Adapts to Changing Circumstances in Transition Countries--Interview with Vice President Johannes Linn

• Dividing Transition Gains and Losses:   Pensions, Privatization, and Reform in Russia
  by Ethan B. Kapstein and Branko Milanovic
  Russia Badly Needs Pension Reform
  How Tight Was Russia's Safety Net in the Face of the Crisis?
  by Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion
  Mirror, Morror on the Wall...Russia's Public Opinion Polls Track Changes in Reform Sentiment
  by Larissa Kosova

• The Baltics and Russia:  Privatization Dilemmas on Different Levels
  It is instructive to compare privatization dilemmas in the Baltics and Russia. The discussions below are based on recent publications by the Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT).
  Baltic Privatization Compares--Most Industrial Enterprises Privatized
  by Seija Lainela

• New Wave of Privatization in Russia? The Policy Choices
  by Juha Honkkila
  
• A Blueprint for Dismembering the World Bank Group?

• Limiting the Scope of the World Bank
  by James D. Wolfensohn

• Challenges Facking China at the Turn of the Century
  by Chi Fulin
  China Gets Ready for Debt-Equity Swaps

• Milestones of Transition

• Letter to the Editor

• Targeting EU Accession in the First Wave:   Interview with Pavol Hamzik, Slovakia's Deputy Prime Minister

• Closeup:  The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)
  SITE Working Papers
  Conference--For the Record
  TEASE: Transition Economics Abstract Series
  Russian Economic Trends (RET)

• The William Davidson Institute
  Equity Market Development in Emerging and Transition Economies
      by Anna Meyendorff
  Recent working papers of the William Davidson Institute: www.wdi.bus.umich.edu
  On the Possibility of Ponzi Schemes in Transition Economies
      by Utpal Bhattacharya
  Corporate Governance in the Asian Financial Crisis
      by Simon Johnson, Peter Boone, Alasdair Breach, and Eric Friedman
  Upcoming Davidson Institute Research Conferences, Workshops and Executive Programs
  
• World Bank/IMF Agenda
• Conference Diary
• New Books and Working Papers
• Bibliography of Selected Articles