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Good Transition Needs Friendly Investment Climate—Some Lessons of Experience
By Guy Pfeffermann
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Foreign Investment Slumps in Cuba
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Labor
Policy Dilemmas Preceding EU Enlargement
As the EU enlargement is
approaching, public anxiety is clearly detectable among both present and
future member states. Current members worry about whether a mass influx
of job seekers from Eastern Europe will endanger their jobs. Future
members worry about whether the enlargement will expose their skills as
obsolete and crowd them out of even the domestic job market. The
following articles focus on pre-accession labor policy dilemmas as
analyzed by a World Bank study and a senior economist from the Economist
Intelligence Unit and as exposed by 13 prominent economists in their
passionate appeal for action.
Labor Markets of the Accession Countries: Fit
to Join?
By Michelle Riboud, Carolina Sánchez-Páramo,
and Carlos Silva-Jáuregui
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Trade
Union Strength in Six CEE Accession Countries |
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Creating
More Jobs in Central and Eastern Europe
Analysis of the Economist Intelligence Unit |
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The
World Bank/IMF Agenda |
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EU
Labor Policies Need Urgent Reform—Prominent European Economists Warn
of Enlargement’s Consequences
By Tito Boeri, Guiseppe Bertola, Herbert
Brücker, Fabrizio Coricelli, Juan Dolado, John Fitzgerald, Angel de la
Fuente, Pietro Garibaldi, Gordon Hanson, Juan Jimeno, Richard
Portes, Gilles Saint-Paul, and Antonio Spilimbergo |
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Ireland’s
Crucial Voting on Nice—Opponents Play the Immigration Card
By Dan O’Brien |
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Russian
Accountancy Adopts International Standards
By Adolf J. H. Enthoven
Box: Still Worlds Apart? Russian and
International Accounting Standards Compared |
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U.S.
Corporate Capitalism on Trial: What Direction Should Cleanup Efforts
Take?
By Adolf J. H. Enthoven |
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New
Books and Working Papers |
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Digital
Divide or Digital Diffusion?
By Richard Rose |
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Europe’s
E-Readiness Is Closing in on the United States
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s New Ranking |
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Occupational
Health Hazards Facing China’s Workers and Possible Remedies
By Su Zhi, Wang Sheng, and Steven P. Levine |
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Overcoming
Textbook Misery in Uzbekistan
By Tony Reed |
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High
Priced–Low Priced: Global City Rankings by the Economist Intelligence
Unit |
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SITE
 Small
Businesses Harassed in Russia Despite New Deregulation Results of a
Business Survey
By Oleg Zamulin
Russia’s
WTO Accession: Scholars See Positive Effects
By Ksenia Yudaeva
Box:
Russia’s WTO Entry in Perspective By Robert M. Stern
Transition
Meets Development Economists Debate Convergence during Riga (Latvia)
Conference
By Romans Pancs |
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LGI/OSI
The
Hazards of Transplanting Education Reform A View from the Classrooms of
Postcommunist Schools
By Johanna Crighton
Decentralizing
Education in Central and Eastern Europe—Does It Make a
Difference?
By Kenneth Davey
Reforms
in Russian Primary and Secondary Education: Losses and Gains
By Natalia Bartasheva
Private
Education in the EU
By David Hayhurst
LGB
Articles Now Being Accepted |
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The
William Davidson Institute
Growth
in Transition: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Should
Know
By Nauro F. Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli
Effects
of Ownership and Financial Status on Corporate Environmental
Performance
By Dietrich Earnhart and Lubomír Lízal
Recent
Working Papers of The William Davidson Institute |
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The
Urban Institute
Transition
Policy Network: A Regional Network of Independent Think Tanks
By Clare Romanik |
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Bank
of Finland
Fiscal
Situation of Baltic Municipalities
By Viktor Trasberg
Dismal
State of Russia’s Heavy Machinery Industries
By Pertti Naulapää
Role
of Foreign Direct Investment in the Russian Banking Sector
By Ilkka Salonen
BOFIT
Discussion Papers |
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Conference
Diary |
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Bibliography
of Selected Articles |
