As the title suggests, the Newsletter aims to be a forum for policy-oriented discussions and debates about how the nature, evolution and challenges of development and transition intersect in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and also Turkey.
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 Twenty Years of Transition and Human DevelopmentIssue Number: 14/2009
This issue marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of communism and of UNDP’s first Human Development Report. |
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Highlights from the issue |
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The euphoria of 1989 has succumbed to more varied assessments of progress made since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The countries of the region are much more heterogeneous than they were 20 years ago.
As GDP falls during the economic crisis, what are the effects on human development in the region?
Why democracy promotion will remain ‘a difficult and paradoxical activity’.
The focus of this issue is the socio-economic dimensions of the global economic crisis in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
State reform in Europe and the CIS amid a global crisis
This issue explores the links between food prices and global economic trends on the one hand, and poverty reduction and sustainable rural development on the other.
This issue analyses the challenges posed by climate change for the Europe and CIS region.
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