“…Beyond Transition is a notable research newsletter about the reforming economies, published by The World Bank Group [available online at: http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/trans/archives.htm]. The prestigious journal Post-Communist Economies has published, systematically, well-documented articles on various economic sectors, in different transition countries as: Azerbaijan (Sabi, 1997), Bulgaria (Mihaylova and Howe, 1998), Croatia (Cengic, 1996), (East) Germany (Hölscher, 1997), Hungary (Mihalyi, 1996), Poland (Kaminski, 1998), Romania (Hunya, 1998), Russia (Magomedov, 1998), Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (Abazov, 1997), Ukraine (Ishaq, 1997;von Hirschhausen, 1998). The critical issue of economic development is important for each individual country as well as for an entire region -it could be either Central Asia or Eastern Europe (Brzeski and Colombatto, 1999).…”