New corruption indexes of transparency international : wide range of scores, by Richard Hischler. Development Dividend of good governance. The art of attracting foreign direct investment in transition...
From plan to market: a twenty-eight country adventure - Director Alan Gelb on the World Bank's new Development Report (Richard Hirschler). Postsocialist media: watchdog over fair market practices? (Richard...
China's transition experience, reexamined (Jeffrey Sachs and Wing Thye Woo). Latvian banking crisis: stakes and mistakes (Alex Fleming and Samuel Talley). Using World Bank credit lines for bank rehabilitation:...
World Bank efforts in Bosnia--conflict-solving through reconstruction (Michel Noel and Richard Hirschler). Sarajevo--a close-up: impressions from a tormented city ( Richard Hirschler). Wage convergence...
Education and information are fundamental to success: World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn visits Russia and Eastern Europe (James Wolfensohn). From plan to market: patterns of transition (Martha de...
Could inflation stabilization be expansionary? (Michael Bruno and William Easterly). The Latin American experience with private pension funds: lessons for Eastern Europe (Jean de Fougerolles). Who is responsible...
World Bank discussion on second-generation transition issues: growth, restructuring, corruption (Michael Bruno, Stanley Fischer, Jana Matesova, and Susan Rose-Ackerman). Anticorruption crackdown in China...
When the Berlin Wall fell, so did birth rates - a study of surprising demographic trends in Eastern Germany. What to do about pensions in transition economies? China's state industry: a paradox of rising...
Lending to Russia: a new challenge to the World Bank - interview with Managing Director Earnest Stern. Russia's withdrawal syndromes in currency reform. Environmental cleanup in eastern Europe: a down-to-earth...
Anti-depression cure for ailing post-Communist economies: interview with Janos Kornai. Economic guesstimate 1993 for Central and Eastern Europe. Foreign direct investment in Eastern Europe -less than expected...
Recent economic policy changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have stimulated worldwide interest in the economic performance of what were once thought of as centrally planned economies. Because...
This paper describes the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) system of trade and payment (the "CMEA regime") and considers how the transition from traditional socialism to a market economy is...
The contents of this socialist economies in transition newsletter include: transforming the ownership system in Eastern Germany; lessons of adjustment lending; quotation of the month: "the demand of the...
The contents of this socialist economies in transition newsletter include: privatization in post-communist societies; will the oil shock imperil reform?; Tanzania: analytical lessons; quotation of the...
The contents of this socialist economies in transition newsletter include: why this newsletter?; New unit in the World Bank; future of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA); Hungary: blue ribbon...
This is a first attempt at advancing some generalization about the Bank's analytical work on socialist economies. It is based on a very selective review of Bank work on socialist member countries, and...
The paper presents some conjectures on how the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management "works." It addresses this question on three levels. First, it considers the institutional framework for decision-making...