Volume 10, Number 2, April 1999

• Economic Consequences of the Kosovo Crisis
  Box: Yugoslavia's Shattered Economy

• Supporting Economics Education in Transition Economies--A World Bank-Initiated Partnership
  Interview with Boris Pleskovic
  Box:  An Assessment of Higher Education in Transition Economies

• Brain Drain Reverse--Repatriating Russian Academics
  by Oleg Glebov
  Box: New Economics School: Teaching Modern Economics
  Box: EERC: Consortium with a Good Cause
  Box: CERGE: Ph.D. Program Offered in Prague

• The Benefits of Open Trade and a Realistic Exchange Rate: World Bank Experts' Useful Insights in Kazakhstan
  Box: Overvaluation Hurts--Learning from Other's Mistakes
  Box: Kazakhstan Devalues the Tenge and Prevents a Trade War

• China's Rural Reform--The "Rights" Direction
  by Wang Jingxin

• EU Accession Process--How Long Will It Last? Views from a Conference
  by Wladimir Andreff

• New DHL Customs Report Brings Mixed Results--Red Tape Curtain Partially Raised
  Box: The DHL Story in Eastern Europe

• William Davidson Institute
  Monetary Policy in Transition: Can Inflation Targeting Work?
         by Josef C. Brada and Ali M. Kutan
  Recent Working Papers
  Latest from the Davidson Institute's Publication Profiles

• Cuba's Economy:  Twilight of an Era
  by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Jorge Perez-Lopez

• Reader's Forum
    Who Is to Blame for Russia's Economic Woes?
          by Ivan Szegvari
     "Why Are Russian Enterprises Not Restructuring?"
          by Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon

• World Bank/IMF/EBRD Agenda
  Box: Russia Resumes Borrowing from World Bank and IMF

• Milestones of Transition

• Conference Diary

• Conference Announcements of the Davidson Institute

• New Books and Working Papers

• Bibliography of Selected Articles