The Global Emerging Market in Transition: Articles, Forecasts, and Studies 0823223485, 9780823223480

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The Global Emerging Market in Transition
Contents
Preface
Becoming a Strategist: An Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction: The Future Begins Today
Part I: Understanding the Global Emerging Market
Incorporating Global Risk Management in the Strategic Decision Making Process
Emerging or Developed, What's the Difference?
A Different Perspective on Emerging Markets
How Emerging is Emerging?
Investing in the Emerging Markets
Gauging the Risk: Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Market Countries
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: The Advantages and Shortcomings
Don't Give up on Russia
The Russian Investment Dilemma
Russia is Creating a System to Ensure Foreign Investment: $1.5 Billion Collateral Fund Established to Safeguard Foreign Ventures
The Nature of International Joint Ventures and Their Role in Global Business
Development of International Joint Ventures in Russia: Risks and Opportunities
"To Capital Markets, with Love," Says Russia
Russia is Losing the Battle for Foreign Investment
Despite Rough Waters, Market Economy Cruises Ahead: Opportunities Abound in NIS for Intrepid Investors
Kvint's Forecast: Beyond the Political Fog, the Business Horizon Looks Clear
Part II: The Top Emerging Markets of Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America
We Forgive You
Europe's Top Six Emerging Markets
Balkans: Emerging Market for International Business
Balkan Refugees in the European Union and the United States: Strategic Economic Solutions for Migration
Bulgaria Lags Behind Dangerously
Amnesty for Capital Exported Abroad: Italy Did it, which Means Bulgaria can Do it too
Bulgaria is the Last Klondike in Eastern Europe
Building Capitalism in Bugaria by Decree
Ukraine: Living in Russia's Shadow
Kazakstan: Rich in History and Resources
Brazil: Social Developments and Telecommunications Market Analysis
Climb to the Top
Part III: The Emerging Market of Russia
Transition to a Free Market
Putin's War on Three Fronts
Watch Out, Kleptocrats
The Last Days of Boris Yeltsin
Fixing Russia
Yearend—Bull Run in Russia, East Europe May Slow
Watching Russian Business Ventures
Russia's Imbalance of Power
Election Results in the Russian Duma
Privileges of the Duma and Boris Yeltsin's Power
Russia's Crumbling Infrastructure
Russia's Capitalist Institutions
Criminal Activity in Russia: Fact and Fiction
New Ruble Zone Doomed, Experts on Russia Say
Russian Expert Addresses Community Group and Faculty: Professor, Consultant, and Author Vladimir Kvint on Campus
Russian Diamonds
A Healthy Realism for the Russians
Why Yeltsin is Stymied
Gorby Takes the Fifth
Down the Rathole
Opportunity in a Shattered Land
Copying the Community
Political, Economic, and Legal Reform in the Soviet Union
The New Map of Eastern Europe
Siberia: A Warm Place for Investors
Gennadi Yanayev, Overachiever
The Coup's Aftermath: Will Gorbachev be the Loser?
Dead Souls
United We Fall
Czar Gorbachev?
The Myth of Good Czar Gorbachev
Harsh Look at Soviet Prospects
The Soviet Union on the Way to the Market: One Step Forward, then Two [Steps Backward]
Opportunities in Soviet Disintegration
Who's in Charge Around Here?
Cold War on Oil Melting with Changes in Russia
Reshuffling the Soviet Deck
The Best Way to Help Gorbachev is to Make Life Difficult for Him
Free the Ruble!
Lenin's Legacy
Russia as Cinderella
"We are Bogged Down"
Crisis and Recovery in Soviet Economy
Austrian Machines for the Soviet Union: In 1990 The Economic Crisis will Worsen
Russia Charts New Island of Capitalism
Best Laid Plans
Doing Business in Moscow
Power to Perestroika
The Experiment of Gorbachev: The Free-Trade Zones for the Release of the Economy
Regionalization of the Russian Economy
Restoring the Romanovs
Russian History Shapes Today's Business Leaders
Russian Pacific Coast: Exciting Opportunity
Go East, Young Man
Far East: A Look into the Future
Siberia: Experiment without Counterpart
Siberia Says No to Castro
Eastern Siberia Could Become Another Saudi Arabia
The Arctic Comes Next
"The Polar Star above Us"
The Role of the Budget in the Intensification of the Economy of the Autonomous Republic
Daghestan–Mangyshlak: The Effectiveness of Interregional Collaboration
Region and Industry: Modes of Interaction
Regionalism as the Key Trend in Scientific and Technological Progress
Key to the Region: Complex Programs
Privatization and Industrial Development in Russia
Privatization in Russia
Privatization in Russia Enters Phase Two
How to Access Business Information in Russia: Information and Democracy Go Hand-in-Hand
Telecommunications a Booming Business: Even Siberia is within Reach
Wreck the Information Flow and the Economy Collapses
Red Military Time Machine Works for Capitalism: Secret Doors Open onto Privatizations of the Russian Military
Internationalization of Russia's Metallurgy Industry
Will Russia be the Chief Oil Source of the Future?
Problems in the Development of the Nonferrous Metal Industry in Siberia
Role of Automation in Developing Nonferrous Metallurgy in Siberia
It is Necessary to Increase Food Production in the Yenisey North
Food for Peace? Or for Civil War?
Part IV: Management Systems and Scientific Technical Progress
Board of Director Motivation in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Confronting the Soviet Management Structure: Bureaucratic, but Workable
Moscow Learns the Language of Business
The Relationship between Increases in Capital Investment and the Reduction in the Duration of the Implementation Phase
The Process of Forming a Regional Policy on Science and Technology
Unified Scientific and Technical Policy: What and Why
To Accurately Determine a Course of Action: An Economist Analyzes the Results of Krasnoyarsk's Past Decade
The Intermediary Role of Scientific/Technological Companies: From the Experience of "Sibtsvetmetavtomatika"
Separation for Production: A Key Stage in Implementing Technological Policy
Uniform System for the Technical Preparation of Production
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