
As the title suggests, the Newsletter aims to be a forum for policy-oriented discussions and debates about how the nature, evolution and challenges of development and transition intersect in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and also Turkey.
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![]() Energy and the EnvironmentIssue Number: 09/2008
This issue examines questions of energy and the environment in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
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Highlights from the issue |
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Problems of environmental sustainability are at the heart of the broader development agenda.
Cyprus’s buffer zone has become an unexpected sanctuary for the largest wild mammal of the island, and possibly many other rare species.
Russia’s gas policies since 2005 have brought tangible benefits-not least of all for the for country’s gas giant, Gazprom.
Russia and Europe have a common interest in ensuring the continuing smooth flow of gas, as well as on finding common solutions to problems of global warming

The use of the gender lens is critical to understanding how transition and development affect women and men differently.
This issue examines the current state of the region's private sector, and how development agencies can strengthen its pro-poor characteristics.
This issue of Development and Transition discusses the challenge of economic and political transition amid the aftermath of military conflict and the difficulties of post-conflict recovery.
Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS are viewed as countries without serious poverty problems. Such views are reinforced by the region’s relatively high levels of human development.

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