The aim of this study is to consider the main factors affecting the industrial policy in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation, manufacturing, green growth and environment. The...

The aim of this study is to consider the main factors affecting the industrial policy in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation, manufacturing, green growth and environment. The...

The post-2008 international investment climate is quite unfavourable to fiscal policy distur bances and growing budget deficits, much more so than in pre-crisis times. Growing investor sensitivity may make external financing of budget deficit and government debt quite diffi cult, but the growth...

The thematic diversity and thorough methodology of the study – or rather, the collection of studies – oblige the reviewer to bring to bear a multi-layered approach. This is a rewarding, albeit a much more complicated task than usual. As opposed to the oft-used modern practice of blurring the...

In economic political debates, it has been endeavoured increasingly frequently in Hungary since 2002 to reassess the economic role of each sector. Attempts to relieve the state budget affect a broadening range of public services, and standpoints more on the radical side doubt justification for...

The 18-month history of Gazdasági Versenyképesség Kerekasztal [Economic Competitiveness Roundtable] has clearly shown that it takes a huge amount of naiveté to regard an across-the-board tax reform or even a barely perceptible change in the taxation system as a matter of the profession. In...

Joseph E. Stiglitz The roaring nineties A new history of the world's most prosperous decade DAYLIGHT PUBLISHING HOUSE (NAPVILÁG KIADÓ), BUDAPEST, 2005

What would Michelangelo's Pieta or David be like if they had been procured under the rules relevant for government contracts in the early 2000s in Hungary? What would have happened if Michelangelo Buonarotti had been excluded from the procedure, because he had failed to submit the copy of the...

Government programmes and communication often – almost always – refer to the Hungarian R&D sector, and the national innovation system as an area whose rapid development is of key significance from the point of view of the country's convergence. The same has been increasingly often heard from...