Links

News Links

China News Digest

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline

Cubanet (Cuban news from the U.S. perspective) 

Granma International Digital (news from Cuba's perspective)
 
 The Prague Post

The Warsaw Voice

The Budapest Sun

The Moscow Times

The Moscow News


  Daily news about Central Europe and Russia provided by the European Information Network.

 

Maps

Europe

Czech Republic

Hungary

Poland

Slovakia

Russia

Europe Geography Quiz

Caribbean

Cuba 

Havana 

 

 

Research Links

William Trumbull's links on Cuba
 

Transition Newsletter, the World Bank's bimonthly publication on economic and social developments in transition economies. Fully available on line.

Finance and Development, a quarterly publication of the IMF, often contains articles on transition (written mostly by IMF and World Bank staff). All articles are readable on line.

Policy Research Working Papers on Transitional Economies, from the World Bank. Abstracts are on line and full texts are available in PDF format.

Economic Policy Forums, a collection of case studies from the World Bank. A number of these are on transition economies.

Hundreds of papers on the economics of transition are available from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Library. All abstracts are available on line and many of the papers can either be downloaded from the site in PDF format or obtained from the authors (e-mail addresses are provided).

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has several Working Papers on transition available in PDF format.

Discussion papers on the economics of transition from the Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh). Abstracts are available on line, the papers are available in PDF format.

Working papers in Economic Development and Comparative Systems from EconWPA. Papers on transition issues (e.g., Chinese economic reforms) are part of the series. The papers are available in PDF and postscript formats.

TEASE, or Transition Economics Abstract Series, an electronic journal of abstracts of work in transition economics. Subscription to the journal is free on a trial basis.

A large collection of papers on Cuba is available from the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. The papers are readable on-line.

Many of the links above are updated from a site on transitional economies that Giorgio Secondi used to maintain. His excellent site on Development Economics has links that may be of use.

 

Articles
 

Anders Aslund, Think Again: Russia, Beyond Transition: The Newsletter About Reforming Economies, July-September, 2001, The World Bank. Sheds light on some common myths concerning transition in Russia.

Peter Reddaway, Market Bolshevism Harmed Russia, Beyond Transition: The Newsletter About Reforming Economies, July-September, 2001, The World Bank.
 

Harry S. Broadman, Competition and Business Entry in Russia, Finance and Development 38,2 (June, 2001).

 Finance and Development, September 2000. The whole issue focuses on transition. A must read.

 

Call for Change: U.S. Financier Helps a Chairman Shake China Inc. Wall Street Journal (Sept 29, 2006).

 
 

Magazine Articles

Reforming Russia: Theory and Practice. Economists July 7-13, 2001


Maintained by William N. Trumbull. Updated 7/11/07