This issue analyses the challenges posed by climate change for the Europe and CIS region.

This issue examines questions of energy and the environment in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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.

Two years after its May 2004 enlargement, the ‘widening versus deepening debate remains a perennial feature of the European Union’s engagement with the post-communist states.