Volume 13, Number 2, March-April 2002

	EU Accession Challenges CEE Agriculture
	Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Transition Countries By Zvi Lerman, Csaba Csaki, and Gershon Feder
	Hungary’s Twisted Land Market
	Foreign Direct Investment: Does the Rule of Law Matter? By John Hewko Box: Those Who Cannot See the Trees for the Forest
	Cultural Values Are Key to Understanding Russia’s Small Business Environment By Emeric Solymossy
	Ukraine and the New Fad: Corporate Governance By Alexander Krakovsky
	The World Bank/IMF Agenda
	Why Is Foreign Direct Investment in Ukraine Trailing Behind?
	The Challenge of Addressing Roma Poverty in Slovakia Box: Slovak Roma History
	No Deal Yet in World Bank Grants Versus Loan Dispute
	New Books and Working Papers
	LGI/OSI The spring 2002 issue of the Local Government Brief, published by the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative-OSI is dealing with the timely issue of international development aid, primarily from the perspective of recipient countries’ governments and NGOs. A selection of the articles follows. All are available on http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/default.asp?idx=inseries&id=4. Pitfalls of Foreign Aid: Lessons from Estonia By Tiina Randma Dancing with Donors: Opportunities for NGOs By Kenneth Davey The EU’s Reform of External Aid By Claus Schultze
	BOFIT Current Issues in Pension Reform in the Baltic Countries By Tuuli Koivu Research Scholarships
	SITE The Great Divide and Beyond: Financial Architecture in Transition By Erik Berglöf and Patrick Bolton Enlargement and Beyond: Baltic Rim Heads of State Address Stockholm Conference on Baltic Sea Region Security and Cooperation The Latvian Labor Market: Signs of Normalization? By Morten Hansen and Romans Pancs
	The William Davidson Institute Starting with the this issue of the Transition Newsletter, we will regularly summarize the William Davidson Institute’s (WDI’s) working papers dealing with EU enlargement. To see the full set of working papers on this topic visit WDI’s web site at www.wdi.bus.umich.edu. Variety, Jobs, and EU Enlargement By Tito Boeri and Joaquim Oliveira Martins Costs and Benefits of “Euroization” in Central and Eastern Europe By D. Mario Nuti Why Do Governments Privatize? By Loren Brandt, Hongbin Li, and Joanne Roberts Mass Privatization and Partial State Ownership of Firms in Transition Economies By John Bennet, Saul Estrin, and James Maw Partial Privatization and Firm Performance: Evidence from India By Nandini Gupta Recent WDI Working Papers Papers can be downloaded at no charge from http://www.wdi.bus.umich.edu. WDI Conferences
	Conference Diary
	The Urban Institute Problems with Russia’s Compulsory Screening for HIV/AIDS By Kimberly Cartwright Inertia Leads Nowhere: Moldova’s Economy Needs Decisive Action By Valeriu Prohnitchi Box: Moldova Needs Foreign Support