Okno Occasional Papers always provide a unique perspective on the policy environment for business in east Europe and the former Soviet Union. Special reports and analyses, including complete versions of some East/West Letter series, appear as Occasional Papers. These titles are currently available:

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No. 11: Joining the Club: Consequences for EU Membership for Eastern Europe. By David L. Bartlett (Forthcoming). This timely assessment of the impact of EU accession on the candidate members from eastern Europe examines the regulatory consequences of membership as well as the effect on corporate strategy in the region, and includes several sector case studies.

No. 10: Swimming Upstream: A Case Study in Russian Environmental Management. By Charles R. Sauer (Forthcoming). A close look at a US-Russian cooperative environmental project in the Istra Region, assessing the lessons learned about regulatory implementation, the impact of the Soviet past, and the relationship between the agricultural sector and the environment.

No. 9: Environmental Policy 1997. (January 1998) $50. A compilation of Okno's coverage of policy matters in the environmental sector drawn from reports in Environment & Health.

No. 8: Health Policy 1997. (January 1998) $50. A compilation of Okno's coverage of policy matters in the health care sector drawn from reports in Environment & Health.

No. 7: Tax Policy in Wonderland: The Law and Reality of Russian Taxation. By Oksana Baidina (November 1996) $30. An unvarnished review of Russian taxes and how they do and do not work; including an overview of the current tax system and a detailed picture of how and why the system fails.

No. 6: Houses Built on Sand: Russian Banking's Coming Shakeout. By Oksana Baidina and Evgeniy Baidin (September 1995) $15

No. 5: Always the Same Hands: Privatization and Problems of Management in Russia Today. By Oksana Baidina and Evgeniy Baidin (April 1995) $15

No. 3: So Many Vouchers, So Little Time: Privatization Policy in the Transition Economies surveys privatization policy in East Central Europe and the non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union. By Lynda Maillet (July 1994) $10

No. 2: Foreign Investment in Uzbekistan outlines the legal and practical environment for investment in this promising newly independent state. By Lynda Maillet (December 1993) $10

No. 1: The Rising Tide of Graft examines the domestic and international aspects of crime and corruption in the ex-USSR. By Lynda Maillet (September 1993) $8

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