Product Description: Can Russia's recent burst of economic growth be sustained? Taking a comprehensive look at the economic and political regime shift from Yeltsin to Putin, this book explores the key challenges facing the Russian economy: to narrow the productivity gap between Russian and Western firms and industries; to attract more domestic and foreign investment; and, underlying these goals, to implement the judicial, administrative, social, and banking reforms necessary to future growth...read more

Product Description: Enlargement poses a number of institutional challenges to the European Union: institutions originally established for six member states need to be adapted to cope with an EU of between 20 and 30 members. This poses questions both about their size, and about the procedures for taking decisions...read more

Product Description: On August 17, 1998, the Russian economy was finally punished for the delays in reforms, the lack of fiscal discipline and the overvalued exchange rate: the government was forced to devalue the ruble and default on its debt obligations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The countries of central and eastern Europe abandoned the socialist system and began the transition to capitalism to promote rapid growth and the ultimate convergence with the west. Nowhere has the need for institutional reform been as great as in the financial sector...read more