Volume 11, Number 2, April 2000

• Prospects and Challenges for Russia:   Davidson Institute Surveys 100 Leading Transition Economists
  by Jan Svejnar
• Ten Years of Transition:  Lessons drawn, New Issues Discussed During World Bank Conference in Washington
  The Road to a Free Economy--Ten Years After
  by Janos Kornai
• For a New Relationship between Donors and Recipients:  The End of Conditionality?
  by Paul Collier
• Beyond the 'Grabbing Hand' of Government in Transition: Facing up to 'State Capture' by the Corporate Sector
  by Joel S. Hellman, Geraint Jones, and Daniel Kaufmann
• China's Future Depends on Further Reforms
  by Chi Fulin
• China at the Gates of the World Trade Organization
• Growth is Good for the Poor
  by David Dollar and Aart Kraay
• Surveys Help Improve the Business Climate in Estonia
  by Terri L. Ziacik
  The Use of Surveys to Assess Investment Climate
• Improving Latvia's Business Environment
  by Lars N. Grava and Sanda Putnina
  Baltic Outlook:  Currencies Remain stable Despite Worsening Current Accounts
  Why Invest in Latvia? Excerpts from the Latvian Development Agency's Website
• Currency Substitution:  A Latvian Puzzle?
  by Vadims Sarajevs
• Pension Reform in Ukraine:  How Extensive?  How Soon?
  by David Snelbecker and Marta Dekhtiarchuk
  Ukraine's State Pension Fund is Cash-Strapped
  
• The William Davidson Institute
  Conference on Accounting in Transition and Emerging Economies
      by William N. Lanen
  Markets, Human Capital, Inequality: Evidence from Rural China
      by Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Paul Glewwe, and Guo Li
  Recent Working Papers of the William Davidson Institute
  Upcoming Davidson Institute Research Conferences

• Don't Eliminate the Welfare State, Redesign It:  Social Policy Lessons for Transition Economies
  by Michael Ellman
• New Books and Working Papers
• EU Standards:   Political Anchor for Russia?
  by Pekka Sutela
  Visiting Researchers Program for 2001
• World Bank/IMF Agenda

• The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)
  Flexing BICEPS:   Bringing Home the Best and the Brightest by Building a Centre of Excellence for Economic Research in the Baltics
  SITE/RECEP Research:  Club Enlargement and Financial Constraints:  Early Versus Late
  by Mike Burkart and Klaus Wallner
  Dynamism and Inertia in the Russian Labor Market:  A Model of Segmentation
  by Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik-Leygonie, Thierry Verdier, Stanislav Kolenikov, and Elena Paltseva
  Stuck in Transit:  Rethinking Russian Economic Reform
  European Corporate Governance Network

• Conference Diary
• Milestones of Transition
• Bibliography of Selected Articles