ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN COOPERATION PARTNER COUNTRIES FROM A SECTORAL PERSPECTIVE


NATO ECONOMIC Colloqium, 30 June, 1 and 2 July 1993, Brussels

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN COOPERATION PARTNER COUNTRIES FROM A SECTORAL PERSPECTIVE

EVOLUTION DE LA SITUATION ECONOMIQUE DANS LES PAYS PARTENAIRES DE LA COOPERATION DU POINT DE VUE SECTORIEL


eco93.1 Contents

eco93.2 Preface REINER WEICHHARDT, Deputy Director NATO Economics Directorate

eco93.3 Welcoming address Speech by AMEDEO DE FRANCHIS Deputy Secretary General of NATO

eco93.4 Keynote speech Economic developments and reforms in the Partner countries LESZEK BALCEROWICZ


PANEL I: LIVING STANDARDS, SOCIAL WELFARE AND LABOUR

Chair: DANIEL GEORGE, Director,Economics Directorate

eco93.5 Incomes and living standards in Central and Eastern Europeand the former Soviet republics: recent developments, current situation and outlook MICHEL GASPARD

eco93.6 Living standards, social welfare and labour in Albania LULZIM HANA

eco93.7 Labour market and employment in Russia: beginning of changes VLADIMIR GIMPELSON

eco93.8 Living standards, social welfare and labour: general observations SILVANA MALLE


PANEL II: ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENTS, ETHNIC TENSIONS, MIGRATION

Chair: GUILLAUME PARMENTIER, Assistant Director, NATO Office of Information and Press

eco93.9 Migration and the labour market in Central Europe LAJOS HETHY

eco93.10 Economic aspects of demographic developments and migration in East-Central Europe: the case of Poland PIOTR KORCELLI

eco93.11 Current crisis and migrations USSROLEG SHAMSHUR

eco93.12 General trends in current East-West migration and related policy challenges JONAS WIDGREN


PANEL III: INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING AND DEFENCE CONVERSION

Chair: REINER WEICHHARDT, Deputy Director, Economics Directorate

eco93.13 Industrial restructuring and defence conversion JULIAN COOPER

eco93.14 Defense conversion as an element of industrial restructuring in Russia YOURI STSEPINSKY

eco93.15 Industrial restructuring and defence conversion in Slovakia IGOR KOSIR

eco93.16 Creating the framework for effective industrial restructuring:the case of Romania DRAGOS NEGRESCU

eco93.17 Industrial policies in Central and Eastern Europe? ERIK DIRKSEN


PANEL IV: ENERGY

Chair: JEAN-CLAUDE RENAUD, former Economic Adviser to the Secretary General of NATO

eco93.18 Controlling the Russian oil and gas complex:the regions vs the centre VALERY KRYUKOV and ARILD MOE

eco93.19 Energy supply and energy security in Lithuania KAZYS ZILYS

eco93.20 Future supply of gas to Europe and East-West cooperation in the gas sector WOLF PLUGE

eco93.21 Charte europeenne de l'energie:etat de la negociation CHRISTIAN WAETERLOOS

eco93.22 The THERMIE programme for the promotion of European energy technologies in Central and Eastern Europe HANS-EIKE VON SCHOLZ


PANEL V: TRANSPORT AND TELECOMMUNICATION

Chair: GRAHAM SHARP, Assistant Director, Economics Directorate

eco93.23 Transport and communications in Cooperation Partner countries HOLLAND HUNTER

eco93.24 Transport and communication network in the Ukraine: developments and policies within the framework of economic reform ALEXEI SEKAREV

eco93.25 The transport sector in the Balkans IVO PAPARELA

eco93.26 Turkey's cooperation programmes in tele-communications with the CIS (Central Asian Turkic Republics, Transcaucasus, and Russia) MEHMET CENGIZ BULUT


PANEL VI: ECONOMICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT (INCLUDING NUCLEAR SAFETY)

Chair: DENIZ YUKSEL-BETEN, CCMS Programme Director, Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division

eco93.27 Phasing out ozone depleting substancesin former East bloc countries JENS JACOBSEN and ULLA BLATT BENDTSEN

eco93.28 Environment: improved knowledge, expanded concern MURRAY FESHBACH

eco93.29 Environmental situation in Estonia REIN RATAS

eco93.30 Internal and external perspectives of energy security issues in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union SARA REVA GREENBLATT

eco93.31 Environmental degradation in Central Asia SHIRIN AKINER

PANEL VII: RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC STABILITY

Chair: DANIEL GEORGE

eco93.32 Political upheaval, system transformation and stability risks n the East of Europe: catchwords and cases HANS-HERMANN HOHMANN

eco93.33 Risks and opportunities for socio-economic stability KAMIL JAN CEK

eco93.34 Strategic dilemmas of Russian reform policies ANDREI ZAGORSKI

eco93.35 Les partis politiques du post-communisme comme acteurs de la stabilite ou de la destabilisation GEORGES MINK

eco93.36 Authors


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This is the latest in a series bringing together papers presented at the NATO colloquia organised by the NATO Economics Directorate and Office of Information and Press on economic issues in the former USSR and Central and East European countries. For further information please write to the Director, Office of Information and Press, 1110 Brussels, Belgium.

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