China, Eastern Europe and Russia compared

Forest Certification in Eastern Europe and Russia

Rapidly Aging Populations: Russia/Eastern Europe

Regional dimensions and trends in population aging: Russia/Eastern Europe Population aging is a global phenomenon and countries of Eastern European also experience rapid increase in the proportion of older people. The proportion of elderly people in the Eastern Europe is currently lower than in the European region as a whole. However this population aging is expected to continue over the next f...

JIBS Book Review - The Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia: Patterns of Business Development in Russia, Eastern Europe, and China

Focusing on entrepreneurship in transition economies, this book is a collection of 12 chapters based on papers presented at a Berkeley conference in May 2000. While both are sociology professors, the editors, Bonnell and Gold, are also directors of Berkeley’s East European studies and Chinese studies centers, respectively. The editors have assembled an interesting and impressive team of contrib...

Do Russia and Eastern Europe need GM plants?

Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are the leading agricultural producers, especially for potato, sugar beet and sunflower. The cumulative effect of adverse climatic conditions, high weediness and losses related to viruses and pests (without any insecticide and herbicide treatments) led to losses amounting to 40-80% of potential production in the Russian Federation and other mentioned countries. We...

An Update on Reform in Eastern Europe and Russia

The paper reviews the experience of Poland and Russia with economic reform, with occasional comparison to China’s experience. The author argues that macroeconomic chaos in Poland and Russia preceded reform and was allayed by reform; that there is no necessary tradeoff between reform and growth, and that the Polish and Russian experience shows that it is possible to create clear property rights ...