Capacity building in economics education and research / François Bourguignon, Yehuda Elkana, and Boris Pleskovic, editors.

The Central European University and the World Bank jointly organized a conference entitled "Scaling Up Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research : Lessons Learned and Future Directions," which took place at the CEU campus in Budapest, Hungary, on June 14-15, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

Keynote address : disciplines of social sciences : separation or cooperation? / János Kornai -- Lessons in capacity building from the Open Society Institute / William Newton-Smith -- Teaching and research in modern economics in the Russian Federation : the experience of the new economic school / Gur Ofer -- Creating a market-oriented research and education institution in a transition economy : the experience of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University / Justin Yifu Lin -- Innovation, imitation, and adaptation : the experiences of 15 years of upscaling Hungarian higher education in economics / László Csaba -- Capacity building and policy impact : the experience of the Global Development Network / Ramona Angelescu and Lyn Squire -- The experience AERC in research, capacity building, and the development of collaborative training programs / William Lyakurwa -- The Economics Education and Research Consortium / Robert Campbell -- Accelerating poverty reduction in South Asia by scaling up economics education and policy research / Shantayanan Devarajan, Manuela V. Ferro, Shekhar Shah, and Priya Shyamsundar -- Capacity building in economics education and research : a note on the experience on Latin America and the Caribbean -- Mauricio Cárdenas and Guillermo Perry -- Supporting capacity building for economics education and research in Africa / Benno Ndulu, Michael Crawford, and Peter Materu -- Economics education and research in the East Asia and Pacific region : experience and directions / Homi Kharas -- Capacity building in modern economics in the Caucasus and Central Asia / Ulrich Hewer -- Developing graduate economics education from scratch : the case of the Central European University / John S. Earle -- CERGE-EI : the American-style PhD program in economics for transition economics / Jan Svejnar -- Why American University-Central Asia should develop an economics MA program / Ellen S. Hurwitz -- The quantity and quality of higher education in transitional economies / Jong-Wha Lee -- Capacity building in economic policy research : outcomes and future steps / Jeffrey Fine -- The experience of the Swedish government in capacity building in Russia and Eastern Europe / Eva Sundquist -- Scaling up capacity building to underserved regions / Regina Yan.