The overall context for the study is partly provided by the three pillars of the World Bank's new forest strategy (Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy, 2002), which focuses on how the Bank can most effectively contribute to harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, to...

The paper discusses the interrelationships between payments system reform and monetary policy implementation in selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The reforms in the payments system are viewed as closely interrelated with the development of money and foreign exchange markets and...

Der Sonderband "1989 -2009, Twenty Years of East-West Integration: Hopes and Achievements" enthält Beiträge von OeNB-Experten für die Region und von angesehenen nationalen und internationalen Experten, die den Transformationsprozess über die vergangenen Jahre beobachtet, analysiert und...

"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...