Volume 7, Number 9-10, September-October 1996

• Welfare or Economic Growth
• Banking Turbulence in the Czech Republic
• Quotation of the Month: "You want to make sure that people have health care and a full stomach and are not adversely affected by the transition." President Wolfensohn on strategic issues of the World Bank
• The World Bank Invests in Social Capital—An Interview
• Lessons from a Moldova Project
• The State in a Changing World—The Next WDR
• Euromoney's Country Ranking
• Bank-Led Restructuring in Poland
• Letters to the Editor
• Milestones of Transition
• World Bank/IMF Agenda
• Conference Diary
• New Books and Working Papers
• Bibliography of Selected Articles