Completing Transition: The Main Challenges

Abstract

Editorial.- Welcoming Remarks.- The Continuing Challenge of Transition and Convergence.- Completing Transition - The Main Challenges.- Transition Economies and the WTO.- Luncheon Speech.- Transition and Vested Interests.- The Transition - Where Are We? A Commentary on Poland's Experiences.- Slovakia on the Road to a Market Economy in 2000.- The Transition - Where Are We? Experience and Lessons from Armenia.- The Next Challenge in Corporate Restructuring: Activating the Financial Sector.- Corporate Reform in Russia and the Former Soviet Union: The First Ten Years.- The Role of Central Banks in Financial Sector Reform.- The Challenges of Bank Restructuring and Banking Supervision in Transition Economies.- Experience and Perspectives of Financial Sector Development in Central and Eastern Europe.- Fiscal Policy Challenges: Transition Countries and OECD Experiences.- Fiscal Policy Challenges in Transition: Experience in the Czech Republic.- Quality of Public Finances: Value Dimensions of Budget Policy.- Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries.- Fiscal Policy and EU Accession - Transparency and Medium-Term Budgeting.- Monetary Policy Challenges in Transition and Toward Accession.- Monetary Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case for Monetary Strategy Based on Exchange Rates.- Monetary Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case for Direct Inflation Targeting.- Exchange Rate Arrangements in Transition to EMU: Some Arguments in Favor of Early Adoption of the Euro.- Presentation of the Olga Radzyner Award.- Transition Economies and the Multilateral Trading System: Introductory Remarks.- Trade Integration and Changing Trade Structures of Transition Economies.- Transition Economies - Integration into the World Economy.- How to Go Forward in Transition.- Completing Transition: The Case of Hungary.- Transition Experiences and Challenges in Romania.- Russia: Experiences and Challenges.- Concluding Remarks.- List of Participants.