Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Opening Remarks -- Opening Remarks -- Keynote Address: Disciplines of Social Sciences: Separation or Cooperation? -- Lessons of Experience and Future Directions -- Lessons in Capacity Building from the Open Society Institute -- Teaching and Research in Modern Economics in the Russian Federation: The Experience of the New Economic School -- Creating a Market-Oriented Research and Education Institution in a Transition Economy: The Experience of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University -- Comments -- Marek Dabrowski -- Jeffrey Miller -- Ugo Pagano -- Innovation, Imitation, and Adaptation: The Experience of 15 Years of Upscaling Hungarian Higher Education in Economics -- Capacity Building and Policy Impact: The Experience of the Global Development Network -- The Experience of AERC in Research, Capacity Building, and the Development of Collaborative Training Programs -- The Economics Education and Research Consortium -- Comments -- Tom Coupé -- Alan Gelb -- Sergei Guriev -- Regional Perspectives -- Accelerating Poverty Reduction in South Asia by Scaling Up Economics Education and Policy Research -- Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research: A Note on the Experience of Latin America and the Caribbean -- Supporting Capacity Building for Economics Education and Research in Africa -- Economics Education and Research in the East Asia and Pacific Region: Experience and Directions -- Capacity Building in Modern Economics in the Caucasus and Central Asia -- Developing Graduate Economics Education Programs -- Developing Graduate Economics Education from Scratch: The Case of the Central European University -- CERGE-EI: The American-Style PhD Program in Economics for Transition Economics -- Comments -- John P. Bonin -- Mauricio Cárdenas -- Ekaterina Stepanova.

Why American University-Central Asia Should Develop an Economics MA Program -- The Quantity and Quality of Higher Education in Transitional Economies -- Scaling Up Capacity Building to Underserved Regions -- Capacity Building in Economic Policy Research: Outcomes and Future Steps -- The Experience of the Swedish Government in Capacity Building in Russia and Eastern Europe -- Scaling Up Capacity Building to Underserved Regions -- Contributors.