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Press Release ECE/GEN/00/18

Geneva,  3 May 2000

PICTURES

Ten Years of Transition: Is the End in Sight?

UN/ECE holds its Spring Seminar

Mr Yves Berthelot, Executive Secretary of UN/ECEMs. Danuta Hübner, currently his Deputy Executive Secretary of UN/ECE. Ivan Berend (Hungarian Academy of Sciences and UCLA, Los Angeles), Erik Berglöf (Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and East European Economies (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics) Jan Svejnar (Executive Director, William Davidson Institute and Professor, University of Michigan Business School) Paul Welfens (Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Integration, University of Potsdam) Michael Ellman (Professor, University of Amsterdam)Alexandru Athanasiu (Professor, University of Bucharest; Minister of Labour, 1997-1999; Prime Minister ad interim, December 1999) Martina Lubyova (Institute for Forecasting, Bratislava)

Alena Nesporova (Senior Specialist, Employment Strategy Department, International Labour Office, Geneva)

Paul Rayment, Director of EAD/ECE, introduced this session. Stanislaw Gomulka (London School of Economics and Advisor to Poland’s Minister of Finance)

George Kopits (Assistant Director, Fiscal Policy Dept., IMF, Washington)

Silvana Malle (Head, Non-Member Economies Division, OECD, Paris)

Joze Mencinger (Professor, Ekonomski Institut Pravne Fakultete, Ljubljana)

Michael Landesmann (Research Director, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Vienna)

Leonid Grigoriev (Director General, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Moscow)  Paul Hare (Professor, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) Andras Nagy (Professor, Institute of Economics, Budapest)

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