Transition and growth in post-communist countries: the ten-year experience

Part I. Uneven reforms

unbalanced growth. 1. The

transition economies after ten years / Stanley Fischer and Ratna Sahay

2. Comments on Fischer and Sahay / Lajos Bokros

3. Ten years after : what is special about transition countries? / Daniel Gros and Marc Suhrcke

4. What are the chances of catching up with the European Union? / Andrew M. Warner

5. Growth convergence : a comment on Warner / Stanislaw Gomulka

6. Remarks on globalization, openness and macroeconomic stability in transition economies / David Lipton

Part II. Financial openness and approaches to monetary integration. 7. Global integration of financial markets and its consequences for transition sconomies / Marek Dąbrowski

8. Unilateral adoption of the euro by EU applicant countries : the macroeconomic aspects / Andrzej Bratkowski and Jacek Rostowski

9. Central European economies in the aftermath of the Russian payments crisis / Lucjan T. Orlowski

Part III. Reforming social safety nets. 10. Reforming welfare states in post-communist countries / Nicholas Barr

11. Welfare state reforms in post-communist countries : a comment on Barr / Stanisława Golinowska

12. Comment on Barr / Stanisław Wellisz

13. Restoring hope, rewarding work : pension reforms in post-communist economies / Michal Rutkowski

14. Do 'winners take all'? : a comment on Rutkowski / Mikhail Dmitriev

15. Pension reforms in transition economies- remarks and open questions : a comment on Rutkowski / Winfried Schmähl

Part IV. Political challenges of transition. 16. Reflections of political and academic leaders of economic transformation / Jacques de Larosiere ... [et al.].