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Conference DiaryFor the Record Real Estate, Construction, and Construction Project
Finance in Russia Sponsored by the Geonomics Institute, the conference focused
on legal and regulatory reform; providing warehousing and materials transportation
services; new construction versus improvement projects; housing markets and construction
projects; commercial construction, design-build, and turnkey projects; locating and
working with dealers and agents; local production and availability of building materials;
safety and environmental standards and specifications; and project financing and financing
for import of wholesale machinery and equipment. Satellite Communications in Russia and the CIS Sponsored by the Adam Smith Institute, the conference
discussed current and future trends—analyzing the recent changes in Russia's space
research policy; conversion of military into civil installations; developments in platform
launchers, space complexes, and equipment for satellite communications; cooperation with
the international business community; and business opportunities in the Russian space
industry: designing and operating commercially-oriented space systems. International Round Table on Privatization in the
Economies in Transition Sponsored by the European Centre for Peace and Development of
the United Nations University for Peace. The purpose of the International Round Table was
to examine experiences and results to date, as well as future prospects and directions for
privatization in the economies in transition. Round table proceedings will be disseminated
to interested government, business, and scientific structures in the economies in
transition to help them in their privatization efforts. Forthcoming Researching East European Markets—The View from the
Region Organized by CIS-Middle Europe Information Service and the
London Business School. Topics will include methods of research and sources of
information—company data, market sector reports, statistics—in Bulgaria, the
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Russia. European Societies or European Society? Social Exclusion
and Social Integration in Europe: Theoretical and Political Perspectives on Poverty Organized by the European Commission/ESF. Harvard-Columbia Arden House Conference Cosponsored by Harvard University's Russian Research Center
and Columbia University's Harriman Institute, the 20th Annual Arden House Conference will
be held at the Arden House Conference Center in Harriman, New York. The conference theme
this year: The Russian Elections—How Will Growing Nationalism Affect Foreign
Investment? As in the past, speakers will be drawn from the academic, government, and
business sectors in Russia, Europe, and the United States. The Role of Banks in the Development of Small and
Medium-size Enterprises The conference will focus on factors that hinder the
development of small and medium-size enterprises in post-communist countries. Methods of
financing this development will be discussed by bankers, researchers, and other conference
participants. Institutional Changes and Problems of Economic Adjustment The European Association for Comparative Economic Studies
will hold its fourth conference in cooperation with ROSES at the University of Grenoble
II, France. Abstracts addressing the following topics are invited: macroeconomic modeling
of the transition, evolutionist and institutionalist approaches, theories of corporate
governance; organization and property rights, network economics, post-Keynesian theory of
the state, theory of economic integration, gravity models, endogenous growth, and theories
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