6 page Note Entitled, "Notes on Economic
Think Tanks or Policy Information Middlemen."
This is a note dated 9/22/01 that I wrote in preparation for the evaluation
of the Russia USAID Support Economic Think Tanks (SETT) Program. It's based
on a literature review and sets out my logic for labeling Think Tanks as
private service-providing enterprises.
Draft Answers to Some Questions Regarding
Think Tank Development in Russia
These are draft answers to questions that the USAID Mission in Moscow asked
us to answer as part of the evaluation. These are dated 10/15/01 and served
as inputs to the final evaluation document.
7 page Note Entitled
"Subsidizing Think Tanks and Consulting Firms in Russia.
This is an incomplete paper, dated 11/15/01 that formed the basis of my
argument that policy reform is endogenous to economic development.