Volume 7, Number 5-6, May-June 1996

• From Plan to Market: A Twenty-Eight Country Adventure
• Media at Crossroad Will the post-socialist press surrender to business interests or take seriously its watchdog role? Latest ratings of Freedom House.
• Rapid Expansion of Private Sector in Central Europe Michael Boris and Michel Noel's article is supplemented by Laszlo Csaba's analysis of unpopular features of privatization.
• Taking the Lead Out World Bank could help eliminate lead from gasoline in transition economies, writes Magdolna Lovei.
• Bosnia Projects: Correction
• New Democracies Barometer Surveys Richard Rose and Christian Hearpfer check the mood in Eastern Europe and Russia, hard hit by prolonged inflation and unemployment.
• Quotation of the Month: "East Germany's...economy was value-subtracting and cost-unconscious."Professor Prybyla on the cost of German unification.
• Book of the Month Joseph Stiglitz: "Whither Socialism?" Reviewed by Martin Schrenk.
• Milestones of Transition
• Milestones Continued...
• World Bank/IMF Agenda
• Conference Diary
• New Books and Working Papers
• Bibliography of Selected Articles

Back to Transition Home Page