Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics: Beyond Transition: 2007

This annual conference is a global gathering of the world's leading scholars and practitioners. Among the attendees are participants from developing countries, think tanks, NGOs, and international institutions. The papers included in this book concern issues such as: ‧ inequality and growth in transition; ‧ trade liberalization, inequality and poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean; ‧ can economic policy overcome geographic disadvantage in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States; and ‧ patterns of spatial convergence and divergence in India and China. IN THIS VOLUME:Introduction by Francois Bourguignon and Boris Pleskovic; keynote address by Francois Bourguignon, Anders Aslund and Nazgul Jenish, Gur Ofer, and Yegor Gaidar; papers by James H. Anderson, Erik Berglof, Patrick Bolton, Kiran Gajwani, Cheryl W. Gray, Sergei Guriev, Ravi Kanbur, William Megginson, Pradeep Mitra, Marcelo Olarreaga, Guillermo Perry, Ernesto Stein, Matthews C. Stephenson, Mariano Tommasi, Ruslan Yemtsov, Xiaobo Zhang, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya; and comments by Chong-En Bai, Alan Gelb, Irena Grosfeld, Thierry Mayer, Ugo Panizza, Andres Solimano, Jan Svejnar, and Stefan Voigt.