Recent seminar with Dr. Richard Pomfret
“The agricultural sector in Kazakhstan experienced declining output throughout the 1990s, partly because relative prices shifted from being distorted in favour of farmers to being distorted against them. Only after the end of the decade did publi...
An Aging Europe: Where are productivity costs most acute?
“Due to serious differences in labor market structures between the New Member States (NMS) (including current candidates) and the EU15, the former...
Aslund: Russia’s Situation is Untenable
In his latest book, Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed, Anders Aslund describes Russia’s successful t...
Rostowski named Polish Minister of Finance
Jacek Rostowski, one of the founders of CASE and a member of the CASE Supervisory Board, has been named Minister of Finance in the new Polish gover...
Poland's Economy after the Elections: Is Inflation a threat?
"The Polish economy lost some of its momentum in the third quarter of 2007. Though inflationary pressures were modest in the third quarter, there a...
Reforming the Ukrainian State and Improving the Business Climate
In spite of the impressive economic growth recorded in the first decade of the 2000s, Ukraine is not a business-friendly country. In this two page...
Challenges to China's Growth
In the latest paper in the CASE Network Studies and Analyses series, Dr. Wing Thye Woo asks, "What could derail China's high growth?" He draws an a...
