managed transition process is one of the best ways to guard against backslide and to ensure the continuity of essential … studies in DRC (initial stages of MONUSCO transition), Haiti (handover from MINUJUSH to BINUH), Liberia (following UNMIL …’s withdrawal) and Sudan (transition of UNAMID). The paper focuses on opportunities that the international community could integrate …

important urbanization processes in poor countries. This paper describes an emerging ‘health transition’ and the importance of …

institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests …. Current institutional evolutions in transition countries might be more affected by their long run past than by the communist …

The former German Democratic Republic underwent a unique post-communist transition because it was absorbed into the …

Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had … achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which …

The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused … institutional misuse (illustrated by examples from Russian transition), discuss its consequences, and explore reasons why …

transition can be parsimoniously explained by two variables: the length of time the country spent under a communist regime and …

Why many transition economies succeeded by pursuing policies that are so different from the radical economic …