NATO
Economics
Directorate
and Office
of Information
and Press

Deputy
Director
NATO
Economics
Directorate

17-19 June,
1998
Ljubljana,
Slovenia

17-19 juin,
1998
Ljubljana,
Slovnie

Colloquium/Colloque 1998

Economic Developments and Reforms in Cooperation Partner Countries: The Role of the State with Particular Focus on Security and Defence Issues

L'volution et les rformes conomiques dans les pays partenaires de la coopration: Le rôle de ltat, en particulier dans les domaines de la scurit et de la dfense


Contents

Contents
Preface
Reiner Weichhardt,
Deputy Director, Economics Directorate, NATO

Chairmans Summary
Daniel George,
Director, Economics Directorate, NATO

Rsum du Prsident
Daniel George,
Directeur, Direction Economique, OTAN

Welcoming Remarks
Marjan Senjur,
Minister of the Republic of Slovenia for Economic Relations and Development

Welcoming Remarks
Sergio Balanzino,
Deputy Secretary General of NATO

Keynote Speech
Institutional Change in a Post-Communist Setting
Daniel Daianu
Minister of Finance, Bucharest, Romania


Panel I :


The Role of the State in Industrial Restructuring

  1. Le rôle de l'tat dans la restructuration industrielle: Main visible ou main invisible?
    Wally Struys, Chef de Dpartement, Ecole Royale Militaire, Bruxelles, Belgique

  2. The Role of the State in Industrial Restructuring: Captured by the State, the Invisible Market hand is Powerless
    Elena Leontjeva, President of the Free Market Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania

  3. Slovania: Enterprise Sector Restructuring and EU Accession
    Marko Simoneti, Matija Rojec, Marco Rems, Ljubljana Faculty of Law, Slovenia

  4. The Role of the State in Industrial Restructuring
    Yuri Khromov, Head, Economic Department, Russias Institute for Strategic Studies, Moscow

  5. State Institutions - The Framework for Economic Restructuring and Reform
    Thomas Nowotny, Political Advisor to the Chief Economist, EBRD, London; Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna


Panel II :


State Budget in a Changings Economic and Security Environment

  1. State Budget in a Changings Economic and Security Environment
    Keith Hartley, Director, Centre for Defence Economics, University of York, United Kingdom

  2. Military Expenditure in Transition Countries from a Public Choice Approach
    Silvana Malle, Head of Division, OECD, Paris

  3. State Budget in a Changing Economic and Security Environment: The Polish Experience
    Katarzyna Zukrowska, Institute of Development and Strategic Studies, Warsaw, Poland

  4. State, Budget, Defence and Society: Central European Countries in the Waiting Room
    Ivo Paparela, APIS s.a.r.l. Consultants, Paris, France; University of Split

  5. Providing for the Defence and Security of the Republic of Belarus during the Transition Period to Market Relations and the Development of Integration
    Oleg Duko, Chairman of the Committee on Economic Issues of Defence, Ministry of Economy, Republic of Belarus


Panel III :


State and Social Security

  1. The State and Social Security - Challenges in Central-Eastern Europe
    Lajos Hthy, Political Secretary of State, Ministry of Labour, Hungary

  2. The State and Social Security - Challenges in Albenia
    Genc Ruli, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Studies, Tirana, Albania

  3. Russia's Social Safety Net: Standinf at the Cross-Roads
    Rostislav Kapeliouchnikov, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow

  4. Social Protection and Redistribution
    Tine Stanovnik, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Institute for Economic Research

  5. Some Notes on the Relation between State and Social Security in the Transformation Process
    Hans-Hermann Hhmann, Head of Department, Federal Institute for Russian, East European and International Studies, Cologne, Germany


Panel IV :


Role of the State in Promoting Technical Progress

  1. The Role of the State in Promoting Technical Progress
    Julian Cooper, Director, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

  2. Organisation de la recherche et de la technologie en France: Le rôle de la DGA
    Jean-Paul Pani, Directeur adjoint des relations internationales, Dlgation Gnrale pour lArmement, Paris, France

  3. The Role of the Private Sector in Promoting Technical Progress - Policy Implications for the New NATO Partners
    Todor Dimitrov, Senior Advisor, Human Dynamics, Vienna, Austria


Panel V :


The Role of The State in External Economic Relations

  1. The Role of The State in External Economic Relations
    Franz-Lothar Altmann, Deputy Director, Sdost-Institut, Munich, Germany

  2. Stimulation of Foreign Investment and Regional Economic Cooperation
    Gerhard Burian, Head of Department for International Economic Policy Relations, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Vienna, Austria

  3. International Economic Relations of Slovenia
    Vojka Ravbar, State Secretary for International Economic Relations, Ministry of Economic Relations and Development, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  4. Limits of National Economic Policies
    Leon Podkaminer, The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria

  5. La Cooperation Internationale dans les Industries de Defense
    Michel Crochet, AEROSPATIALE, Directeur du Groupe de Programmes Systmes, Branche Espace et Dfense, Paris, France

  6. The History of "Offset" in Poland
    Roman Czerwiski, Manager, Industrial Optics Center S.A., Warsaw, Poland

  7. The Role of the State in External Economic Relations
    Andrej Kumar, Ljubljana Faculty of Economics, Slovenia


Additional Papers Submitted

  1. Uzbekistan - Legal Apsects of Fullfillment of Economic Restructuring and Reforms
    Abduvali Isadjanov, Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

  2. Some issues pertaining to Government Functions and Failures in Transition and Developing Economies Peter Sutcliffe, Economics Directorate, NATO


Summing Up

  1. The Role of the State with Particular Focus on Security and Defence Issues
    Michael Kaser, Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

  2. List of Authors and Speakers


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First edition 1998
ISBN 92-845-0108-3

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.

The articles contained in this volume represent the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion or policy of member governments or NATO.


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