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1 online resource (89 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE CONTEXT FOR WESTERN ASSISTANCE; Initial Euphoria: Sober Realities; The Challenge of Economic Transformation; An Uneasy Mix: Stabilization and Structural Transformation; External Challenges to the Reform Effort; Internal Challenges; Redefining Western Security; Ecological Jeopardy; Investing in a Common Future; III. DEFINITION AND FORMS OF WESTERN ASSISTANCE; What is Assistance?; Forms of Western Assistance to Transition; Comparative Views; IV. EXPERIENCE OF WESTERN ASSISTANCE TO DATE |
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The G-24 InitiativeWestern Assistance Commitments; Different Forms of Assistance; Multilateral Assistance; Bilateral Assistance; Non-Reimbursable Aid; Non-Economic Assistance; The Role of Private Funding; Mechanics of Private Funding; Humanitarian and Emergency Assistance; The Recipients' Perspective; V. DISBURSEMENT AND ABSORPTION; Organization of the Assistance Process; Competition and Conditionality; Disbursement to Date; Absorption; Impediments to Absorptive Capacity; VI. CONCLUSIONS AND PRINCIPLES GOVERNING WESTERN ASSISTANCE; VII. RECOMMENDATIONS |
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VIII. THE ASSISTANCE COORDINATION COUNCILStructure and Goals; Funding of the ACC; Proposal to the G-7; IX. LESSONS FROM THE THREE COUNTRIES' EXPERIENCE FOR THE OTHER POST-COMMUNIST STATES AS THEY ENTER TRANSITION; APPENDIX 1. Grant Equivalent Value (GEV); APPENDIX 2. Notes on Task Force members and other contributors |
| Summary |
This Report provides a thoughtful and broad-ranging analysis of Western assistance to transition in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Hungary and Poland |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic assistance, European -- Europe, Eastern
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Economic assistance, European
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Eastern Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429695728 |
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0429695721 |
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