ECOWEST Journal
Aims and Scope
In order to increase the level of economic education and research, the IPM Research Center publishes an independent scientific economic journal ECOWEST (origin of the words “Economics” and “West”). The ECOWEST gathers articles on the most topical issues of social and economic development of Belarus and other transition economies written by Belarusian and CIS authors, as well as translations of the papers of leading foreign economists, including lectures of the Nobel Prize winners in Economics. The journal aims to ensure the international standards of economic research and is open for papers based on original economic research and modern methodology of economic analysis. The ECOWEST is distributed free of charge among the wide circle of researchers from Belarusian think tanks, analysts of government structures, representatives of international financial organizations, foreign experts, representatives of mass media, students, teachers of state and private institutions of higher education, business community, and representatives of economic and political elites.
Editorial Board
Dr. Andrey Bakanov, associate professor, Belarusian State University
Prof. Dr. Stanislav Bogdankevich
Dr. Elena Vasilieva, associate professor, Belarusian State University
Pavel Daneyko, Institute for Privatization and Management
Dr. Dmitri Dichkovski, MBA, Milavitsa
Dr. Leonid Zaiko, associate professor, analytical center "Strategy"
Prof. Dr. Mihail Kovalev, Belarusian State University
Dr. Alexander Sosnov, associate professor, Independent Institute for Social, Economic and Political Studies
Chief Editor
International Board
Prof. Dr. Marek Dabrowski, CASE Fund (Warsaw, Poland)
Anders Åslund, PhD, senior fellow, Institute for International Economics (USA)
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Mau, Academy of National Economy at the Government of Russian Federation
Prof. Dr. Lev Lubimov, The Higher School of Economics (Russia)
Dr. Alexander Paskhaver, Center for Economic Development (Ukraine)
Ben Slay, PhD, UNDP's Regional Support Centre in Bratislava (Slovakia)
Copyright Information
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76 Zakharov Str.
220088 Minsk
Belarus
Phone/fax: +375 (17) 2100105
E-mail: ecowest@research.by
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Promoting Economic Transition in Belarus
ECOWEST (2003) 3, 2, 279-287