Research Catalog

Title

The global emerging market in transition : articles, forecasts, and studies, 1973-1998 / Vladimir L. Kvint.

Author

Kvint, V. L. (Vladimir Lʹvovich)

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 1999.

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Description

xiv, 611 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"A compendium of the work of Vladimir L. Kvint, Global Emerging Market in Transition: Articles, Forecasts, and Studies is an essential guide to understanding the intricacies behind global trends and emerging markets."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Russia (Federation) > Economic conditions > 1991-
• Economic history > 1990-
• Investments, Foreign > Russia (Federation)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [561]-603).

Contents

Introduction: The Future Begins Today -- Pt. I. Understanding the Global Emerging Market -- Classification of Emerging Markets -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Pt. II. The Top Emerging Markets of Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America -- Europe's Six Top Emerging Markets -- Balkans: Emerging Market for International Business -- Bulgaria as the Last Klondike in Eastern Europe -- Building Capitalism in Bulgaria by Decree -- Ukraine: Living in Russia's Shadow -- Kazakstan: Rich in History and Resources -- Brazil: Social Development and Telecommunications Market Analysis -- Pt. III. The Emerging Market of Russia -- Transition to a Free Market -- 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 Yaneyev, 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 Privatization 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? -- Pt. 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 -- Preparation for Production: A Key Stage in Implementing Technological Policy -- Uniform System for the Technical Preparation of Production.

ISBN

082321902X (alk. paper)

LCCN

98054126

OCLC

ocm40444547

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries