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International Conference on Strengthening Integration of the Economies in Transition into the World Economy through Economic Diversification

International Conference on Strengthening Integration of the Economies in Transition into the World Economy through Economic Diversification

02 - 04 April 2008
Geneva Switzerland

Documents

Document Title and Symbol ENG FRE RUS
Provisional Agenda ECE/CECI/CONF.1/1. PDF PDF PDF
Programme PDF    
Report PDF PDF PDF

Presentations

Document Title and Symbol ENG RUS
Mobilizing Institutions in Support of Economic Diversification
and Integration of The Economies in Transition into the World Economy
Paul Hare
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
“Institutions and diversification of the economies in transition: policy challenges”
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Rostislav Kokorev
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation
“The role of institutions for diversifying the economy in the Russian Federation”
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Simon Commander
EBRD and London Business School
United Kingdom
Jan Svejnar
University of Michigan
United States of America
Katrin Tinn
Stockholm School of Economics
Sweden
“Explaining the performance of firms and countries: what role does the business environment play?”
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Vladimir Gligorov
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW)
Austria
“The impact of the EU enlargement and neighbourhood policies in integrating economies in transition”
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Coordinating the Efforts of International and Domestic Institutions
Milica Uvalic
University of Perugia
Italy
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Ksenia Liapina
Member of Parliament of Ukrain
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Oleg Solntsev
Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-term Forecasting, Russian Federation
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Dragana Zoric
Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency
Republic of Serbia
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Migration and Remittances: Policies in Support of Economic
Diversification and their Impact on Development :

Robert C. Shelburne
UNECE
“Remittances in the SEE and the CIS: levels, trends, and determinants”
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Artur Andrysiak
UNECE
“Statistical issues in estimating remittances in the CIS”
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Gloria Moreno-Fontes Chammartin
International Migration Programme
International Labour Organization
“The effective use of remittances in promoting economic development”
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International Trade and Economic Diversification: The Policy Challenge
Vladimir Gligorov
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW)
Austria
“Trade, investments and development in the Balkans”
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Vitalija Gaucaite Wittich
UNECE
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Michael Landesmann
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW)
Austria
“Trade patterns and policies in the economies in transition”
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Robert Shelburne
UNECE
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Market Access for the Economies In Transition and Multilateral
Trade Liberalization: How Much and How Fast ?
Zdenek Drabek
World Trade Organization
“The process of WTO accession and the stumbling blocks in SEE and the CIS”
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Gulnur Rakhmatulina
Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies
Republic of Kazakhstan
“Regional cooperation in the CIS”
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Key Issues in Multilateral Trade Liberalization of Economies in Transition
Tatyana Starchenko
Deputy Minister
Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus
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Bojana Todorovic
Assistant Minister
Ministry for Regional and Multilateral Economic and Trade
Cooperation of the Republic of Serbia
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Enhancing Economic Diversification through Foreign Direct Investments
Kalman Kalotay
UNCTAD
“Patterns of inward FDI in economies in transition, 1991 – 2006”
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Saul Estrin
London School of Economics
United Kingdom
Klaus Meyer
University of Bath
United Kingdom
“Foreign direct investment in transition economies: strengthening the gains through diversification”
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Malinka Koparanova
UN DESA
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Investment Promotion Initiatives and their Evaluation
Dmytro Lyapin
Institute for Competitive Society
Ukraine
  PDF
Dragana Zoric
Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency
Republic of Serbia
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Robert Nowak
UNECE
“Trading across borders: transport in the CIS region”
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Role of Infrastructure, Cross-Border Issues, Energy, Transport
and Access to ICT
Rafkat Hasanov
Public Association “Investment Roundtable of Kyrgyzstan”
Kyrgyz Republic
  PDF
Economic Diversification and Modernization of the Cis: Opportunities
and Policy Challenges
Rudiger Ahrend
OECD
“Strategies for economic diversification in the resource-rich countries”
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Marek Dabrowski
CASE- Center for Social and Economic Research
Poland
Policy challenges faced by low-income CIS economies”
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Max Spoor
Institute of Social Studies
The Netherlands
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Key Development Policies, including MDGS, and Obstacles
of the Low-Income CIS to Diversify their Economies
Rafkat Hasanov
Public Association “Investment Roundtable of Kyrgyzstan”
Kyrgyz Republic
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Diversification through Knowledge-Based Development: Policy
Challenges for Economies in Transition
Rumen Dobrinsky
UNECE
 Knowledge-oriented diversification strategies:
policy options for transition economies”
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José Palacín
UNECE
“National diversification strategies and knowledge-based development: some financing issues on CIS countries”
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