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Transition--With
Chinese Characteristics
China needs to learn from the experience of various transition
economies. That was the main consideration of the China Institute for
Reform and Development (CIRD), the Haikou (Hainan)-based think tank,
when in mid-June it hosted an international symposium on this topic.
Prominent economists from across China attended, together with foreign
experts, including Stanford professor and international trade guru
Masahiko Aoki; Poland’s former finance minister and leading
transitologist Grzegorz Kolodko; as well as Professor Richard Rose,
expert in mass behavior in new democracies and inventor of the New
Russia Barometer. During the three-day meeting the hosts, led by
Executive Director Chi Fulin, elicited lively discussion on the topic.
The following two articles are based on presentations during this
conference.
Progress in Ownership Changes and Hidden risks
in China's Transition
By Fan Gang |
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China's
Experience with Transition: What Is Behind Its Stunning Economic
Success?
By Richard Hirschler |
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Stiglitz-Rogoff
Debate on "Globalization and Its Discontents"
Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and former
World Bank chief economist, and Kenneth Rogoff, economic counselor and
director of the Research Department at the IMF, held an exciting debate
on development issues at the end of June, hosted by the World Bank. We
highlight parts of the discussion that focused on Stiglitz’s recently
published book Globalization and Its Discontents. As background we also
provide a slightly shortened version of a recent speech on the same
topic by Thomas C. Dawson, director of the IMF’s External Relations
Department. Finally, we also quote some excerpts from this book that
generated so much emotion.
 Stiglitz:
IMF Imposed Excessive Restrictions
Rogoff:
Your Medicine is Dubious
Stiglitz,
the IMF, and Globalization
Excerpts
from Globalization and Its Discontents
By Joseph Stiglitz |
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How
Free from Fear Are Citizens in Transition Societies?
By Richard Rose |
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Undertaking
a Difficult Transition in Yugoslavia
By Aleksandra Brankovic and Aleksa
Nenadovic
The
G17 Institute: Belgrade's Catalyst for Reform |
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International
Training Program for Entrepreneurs in Mekong Countries
By John McKenzie
Mekong Project Development Facility |
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Vietnam
Focuses on Education |
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The
World Bank/IMF Agenda |
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LGI/OSI
 Education,
Ethnicity, and Single Motherhood: The Determinants of Poverty in
Postcommunist Countries
By Ivan Szelenyi
Corruption
and Poverty in Postcommunist Europe
By William L. Miller
Education
to Facilitate the Way Out of Poverty
By Lucinia Bal |
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SITE
Russian
Industry and WTO Accession: Death Knell or New Beginning?
By Ksenia Yudaeva, Evgenia Bessonova, and
Konstantin Kozlov |
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The
William Davidson Institute
A Symposium on Outstanding Issues of Transition Economics
The winter 2002 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives
(vol. 16, no. 1) featured five articles by research fellows of the
William Davidson Institute (WDI) that summarized their evaluation of the
main outstanding issues in the economic transformation that is now more
than 10 years old. The papers are summarized below and are all available
in the WDI working paper series.
Transition
Economies: Performances and Challenges
By Jan Svejnar
The Political Economy of Transition
By Gérard Roland
Institutional Determinants of Labor
Reallocation in Transition Countries
By Tito Boeri and Katherine Terrell
Competition and Corporate Governance in
Transition Countries
By Saul Estrin
Research Data from Transition Economies
By Randall K. Filer and Jan Hanousek |
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The
Urban Institute
Poor
Decentralization Policy Burdens Poland’s Social Services
By Janelle Kerlin
Measuring
and Evaluating Transition: The Blessing and Curse of Indicators
By Iván Tosics |
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Bank
of Finland
The
Importance of Nominal Convergence for EU Candidate Countries
By Marketta Järvinen
Finnish Firms See More Business in Russia—and Reform Needs
By Mirja Azeem |
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Conference
Diary |
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New
Books and Working Papers |
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Bibliography
of Selected Articles |
