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WDI/CEPR Annual International Conference on Transition Economics
Thursday, May 27, 2004, Hanoi, Vietnam
This conference was organized by the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and hosted this year by the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). It provided a forum for leading economists and other social scientists working on transition and on broader issues of development and institutional change to meet, present new research, develop collaborative relationships, and complete ongoing research. Related articles:
UNDP/WDI/CEPR Transition Economies Policy Conference
May 31 - June 1, 2004 UNDP in collaboration with WDI, CEPR and VASS organized a high level international policy conference on countries in transition held in Hanoi, Vietnam May 31 to June 1, 2004. The main purpose of this policy conference was to take stock of and exchange experiences on some of the most important lessons learned in transition economies over the past fifteen years, and to discern the most important policy and institutional implications for countries still in transition. The conference also compared and contrasted the differing experiences of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe with those of transition economies in East and South East Asia. The conference attracted a wide range of senior officials and policy makers from Hungary, Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Cambodia, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Laos, Mongolia, and Viet Nam. Resource persons for the conference included distinguished scholars and experts in the area of transition from renowned policy and research institutes including Brookings, Harvard University, London School of Economics, Stanford University, Stockholm School of Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, University of California Berkeley, University of Michigan, Warsaw University, Transparency International, EBRD, IMF, the World Bank and UNDP.
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