Volume 10, Number 3, June 1999

• Interview with World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn
  Box: The CDF Matrix
  Box: Three Transition Countries: Three Experiments with the CDF

• Situation of Russia's Poor Aggravates: A World Bank Proposes Better Safety Net
  Box: Targeting Social Assistance--Experiments in Three Oblasts
  Box: World Bank Assistance to Russia's Social Sectors

• Distrusting Government Institutions, Russians Develop Survival Strategies
  by Richard Rose

• Kosovo--The Cost of War and Peace

• Strengthening Weak Spots in China's Economic System
  by Jiang Conggan and Liu Zheng

• Milestones of Transition

• Reader's Forum
  Thoughts on Social Contradictions of Economic Transition
  by Laszlo Antal
  Pretence of market Economy and Legacy of Old Regime--Political Economy of System Transformation
  by Tsuneo Morita

• William Davidson Institute
  Are Central and East European Firms Ready for EU Accession?
         by Wendy Carlin, Saul Estrin, and Mark Schaffer
  Investment Financing in Russian Financial-Industrial Groups: Are Diversified Industrial Groups Efficient Corporate Structures in Emerging Market Economies?
        by Enrico Perotti and Stanislav Gelfer
  Recent Working Papers
  
• Letter to the Editor

• The Race Is On: Competition for the CEE Car Market
  by Ryan James Tutaki

• World Bank/IMF/EBRD Agenda
• Conference Diary
• New Books and Working Papers
• Bibliography of Selected Articles