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Volume 14, Number 7-9, July-August-September 2003

The Road to Prosperity: Saving Capitalism from Capitalists
by Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales
 
NEW FINDINGS
Investment Climate in China: A Tale of Five Cities
by David Dollar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Anqing Shi, Scott Wallsten, Shuilin Wang, and Lixin Colin Xu
Stability and Growth in EU Accession Countries
by László Halpern
Box: Conditions for Joining the European Monetary Union
UNICEF Social Monitor 2003 Reveals Real Mortality Trends in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Box: The Social Monitor 2003 and the TransMONEE Database
TALK OF THE TOWN
Corporate Governance in Russia: The Yukos Case
by Bruce A. Reznik
Box: The "Code"
The Yukos Affair—A Debate
Russia’s Unpopular Billionaires on Forbes’s List
Corporate Management Scrutinized Worldwide: Closer Oversight, Stricter Regulations
by Adolf Enthoven
BEST PRACTICE
China’s Knowledge Revolution
by Douglas Zhihua Zeng
Box: Lifelong Learning by the Elderly in China and the United States
Box: Industrial Parks Boost China’s Economy
by Qi Xiao-Mei
Russian Infrastructure Needs Overhaul: Moscow Workshops Urge Reform
Recent policy workshops in Moscow organized by CEFIR focused on two of Russia’s key infrastructure sectors: the railroads and telecommunications. As the government weighs and chooses policy options for reforming and regulating these sectors, discussion at the workshops highlighted the importance of learning from the complexity of international experience and of avoiding one-size-fits-all solutions.
Railroad Restructuring
by Sergei Guriev
Box: The Official Russian Railroads Reform Plan
Telecommunications Reform
by Ksenia Yudaeva
EVENTS
CEPR/WDI Conference on Transition Economics
Roma in an Expanding Europe: Challenges for the Future
by Dena Ringold
Life in Slovakia’s Roma Settlements
DISCUSSION
Comprehensive Development Framework Probed: OED Findings and Recommendations
Box: Tensions Among the CDF Principles
VOICE
Crossing Lithuania and Kaliningrad by Bike
by Barry D. Wood
WORLD BANK/IMF AGENDA
Box: Trade Issues Preoccupy Transition Economies—Interview with Pradeep Mitra
NEW BOOKS AND WORKING PAPERS
CONFERENCE DIARY
Box: Master of Public Policy at the Central European University
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED ARTICLES
 

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