SPP Hosts Conference on Post-Communist Transitions, Drawing Balcerowicz, Klaus, Chubais

May 20, 2014

The School of Public Policy and the Peterson Institute for International Economics co-hosted a two-day symposium of political leaders, policymakers and scholars on May 6-7 to assess lessons learned and the road ahead 25 years after the fall of communism. The "Transition in Perspective" conference drew an extraordinary group of practitioners and specialists from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and many other former communist countries. Among the participants were Leszek Balcerowicz, Vaclav Klaus and Anatoly Chubais, architects of economic reform in the 1990s in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic, and Russia respectively​, and Lajos Bokros, former Hungarian finance minister and director of the World Bank.​ They discussed 14 papers in eight different sessions on such aspects as the future of Ukraine, why many economic reforms in Russia and elsewhere are being reversed, and the role of privatization of government enterprises. For more information, see http://spp.ceu.hu/article/2014-05-12/spp-host-historic-conference-post-c...