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Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Einars Repse |
Latvia: Focus on Country Development Latvia has made considerable progress over the past decade in transforming its centrally planned economy into a market-oriented one. What role has its central bank played in this transition, and what steps is it taking to promote the country's continuing economic development?   |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Janos Kornai |
Making the Transition to Private Ownership When the former centrally planned economies began the transition to a market economy one decade ago, there was strong disagreement on the best way to carry out ownership reform. 10 years into transition, experience has proved that organic development was the best strategy. |
Information Today
August 2000
Paul Blake |
Online Insights: WAP: Information Without Wires The U.S. is normally a good year ahead of Europe when it comes to the adoption of new technology. However, there is one area where the Europeans are miles ahead: the use of cell phones to access information services over the Internet.... |
Information Today
June 12, 2000
Nancy Lambert |
Questel-Orbit Bought by Managers to Form Intellectual Property Group (IPG) Jean Besson, head of Questel-Orbit under the French government-owned telecommunications giant France Telecom, recently announced a management buyout of 80-percent of Questel-Orbit from its former owner.... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Raj Desai & Itzhak Goldberg |
Stakeholders, Governance, and the Russian Enterprise Dilemma Over the past decade, Russia's efforts to achieve economic growth and restructure its economy have been seriously hampered by a dearth of investment and the proliferation of barter and arrears. Given current conditions, how might Russian economic reform efforts best be supported? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Rudiger Soltwedel, Dirk Dohse, & Christiane Krieger-Boden |
European Labor Markets and EMU Challenges Ahead The debate about European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has so far been dominated by questions of fiscal convergence and macroeconomic stability. Far less attention has been given to EMU's effects on labor markets, although labor market performance will be crucial in determining the long-term success or failure of EMU.... |
Salon.com
June 22, 2000
Mark Hunter |
Letter from France Le Grand Fromage: What the French think of Jean-Marie Messier, France's new king of content. |
Wired
June 2000
Christopher Dickey |
GO TO: Paris 14 startups, 130 people, and $20 million in a former circus northeast of the Seine - and that's just one incubateur. The post-Minitel generation comes of age. |
Salon.com
June 9, 2000
Mark Hunter |
Europe's monster plane It's 40 feet shorter than a football field: Meet Airbus' huge new A3XX, which could change the future of aviation. |
Salon.com
June 6, 2000
J.A. Getzlaff |
Artichoke power! Spanish villages plan to burn giant veggies for electricity. |
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