Development and Transition 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.
Our aim is to discuss and think differently about policy frameworks by bringing together a variety of viewpoints and analytical approaches from researchers and practitioners to explore and explain the core issues and problems, and to extract the best practices.
Each issue has a theme. Past issues have focused on climate change, gender, private sector and development, conflict and development, poverty and inequality, EU enlargement and the wider neighbourhood, growth productivity and development, and migration and minorities. Future themes include rural development and food security, and reform of the post-communist state.
In order to promote further discussion of the ideas presented in the newsletter, we have organized forums to launch each issue. Past forums have taken place in Warsaw, Croatia, Ukraine, Belgium, and Uzbekistan, and have involved governments, the European Union, non-governmental organizations, business leaders, media and other multilaterals.
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Development and Transition is aimed at all those with an interest in development issues in that region and in the work of UNDP. We hope you will find this site useful. Subscriptions to the newsletter are free of charge.